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Preferring one taste over another without recognizing either.

Ralph Adolphs1, Daniel Tranel, Michael Koenigs

  • 1Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. radolphs@hss.caltech.edu

Nature Neuroscience
|June 14, 2005
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Individuals can prefer tastes without conscious recognition or memory. Brain damage can cause a dissociation where taste preference persists despite lost taste recognition.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Gustatory System
  • Sensory Perception

Background:

  • Conscious perception and memory are typically associated with sensory discrimination.
  • Previous research suggests taste recognition relies on the gustatory cortex.

Observation:

  • A subject exhibited a strong behavioral preference for sugar over saline.
  • The subject had a complete inability to recognize tastes, indicating a dissociation of abilities.

Findings:

  • The subject's brain damage pattern explains this dissociation.
  • Behavioral choices regarding taste can be made without the gustatory cortex.

Implications:

  • This challenges the necessity of the gustatory cortex for all taste-based behavioral choices.

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  • Suggests distinct neural pathways for taste preference and recognition.
  • Opens new avenues for understanding sensory processing and brain injury recovery.