Tasting Temperature and Pain

Authors

Christian Lemon, University of Oklahoma

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

4-29-2021

Keywords

Neuroscience; Sense of taste; Food selection behavior; Sensory factors; Temperature

Collection

Integrative Systems Neuroscience Seminar Series

Abstract

The sense of taste plays an important role in guiding food selection behaviors and ingestive preferences in diverse animals, such as humans and mice. Understanding how taste works has important implications for delineating the role of sensory factors in health and disease states, including obesity.

Historically, taste has been studied as an independent sensory system, isolated from other sensory modalities. However, old and new data from perceptual to neural levels of analysis reveal taste processing in the periphery and brain depends on the interaction of taste sensations with other modalities, such as temperature.

This talk will discuss work on the confluence of taste and temperature processing in the brain, including the recent discovery of a neural circuit that supports an intersection between taste, thermal and nociceptive (pain-related) signals in the mid brain.

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Citation

Lemon, C. (2021). Tasting Temperature and Pain. Publications and Presentations. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/neuropub/7