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Internal body state influences topographical plasticity of sensory representations in the rat gustatory cortex

Accolla, Riccardo
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Carleton, Alan
2008
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)

Primary sensory cortices are remarkably organized in spatial maps according to specific sensory features of the stimuli. These cortical maps can undergo plastic rearrangements after changes in afferent ("bottom-up") sensory inputs such as peripheral lesions or passive sensory experience. However, much less is known about the influence of "top-down" factors on cortical plasticity. Here, we studied the effect of a visceral malaise on taste representations in the gustatory cortex (GC). Using in vivo optical imaging, we showed that inducing conditioned taste aversion (CTA) to a sweet and pleasant stimulus induced plastic rearrangement of its cortical representation, becoming more similar to a bitter and unpleasant taste representation. Using a behavior task, we showed that changes in hedonic perception are directly related to the maps plasticity in the GC. Indeed imaging the animals after CTA extinction indicated that sweet and bitter representations were dissimilar. in conclusion, we showed that an internal state of malaise induces plastic reshaping in the GC associated to behavioral shift of the stimulus hedonic value. We propose that the GC not only encodes taste modality, intensity, and memory but extends its integrative properties to process also the stimulus hedonic value.

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research article
DOI
10.1073/pnas.0708927105
Web of Science ID

WOS:000253930600063

Author(s)
Accolla, Riccardo
Carleton, Alan
Date Issued

2008

Publisher

National Academy of Sciences

Published in
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America (PNAS)
Volume

105

Start page

4010

End page

4015

Subjects

chemical senses

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map plasticity

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taste coding

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Conditioned Taste-Aversion

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C-Fos Expression

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Insular Cortex

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Cortical-Neurons

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Auditory-Cortex

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Nmda Receptors

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Solitary Tract

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Short-Term

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Memory

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Extinction

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