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Journal Article
The coding of valence and identity in the mammalian taste system
2018
Overview
The ability of the taste system to identify a tastant (what it tastes like) enables animals to recognize and discriminate between the different basic taste qualities
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. The valence of a tastant (whether it is appetitive or aversive) specifies its hedonic value and elicits the execution of selective behaviours. Here we examine how sweet and bitter are afforded valence versus identity in mice. We show that neurons in the sweet-responsive and bitter-responsive cortex project to topographically distinct areas of the amygdala, with strong segregation of neural projections conveying appetitive versus aversive taste signals. By manipulating selective taste inputs to the amygdala, we show that it is possible to impose positive or negative valence on a neutral water stimulus, and even to reverse the hedonic value of a sweet or bitter tastant. Remarkably, mice with silenced neurons in the amygdala no longer exhibit behaviour that reflects the valence associated with direct stimulation of the taste cortex, or with delivery of sweet and bitter chemicals. Nonetheless, these mice can still identify and discriminate between tastants, just as wild-type controls do. These results help to explain how the taste system generates stereotypic and predetermined attractive and aversive taste behaviours, and support the existence of distinct neural substrates for the discrimination of taste identity and the assignment of valence.
The identity and hedonic value of tastes are encoded in distinct neural substrates; in mice, the amygdala is necessary and sufficient to drive valence-specific behaviours in response to bitter or sweet taste stimuli, and the cortex can independently represent taste identity.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
Subject
/ 64/60
/ Animals
/ Appetitive Behavior - drug effects
/ Appetitive Behavior - physiology
/ Avoidance Learning - drug effects
/ Avoidance Learning - physiology
/ Clozapine - analogs & derivatives
/ Discrimination, Psychological - drug effects
/ Discrimination, Psychological - physiology
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Letter
/ Male
/ Mice
/ Neurons
/ Science
