Gustatory Responses in the Alert Monkey.

味道是一种非常重要的感觉，因为它与食物有关 选择和偏好，并与饥饿，摄入， 行为的营养方面。 大多数味觉研究 涉及啮齿类动物，它们有生理和行为方面的 与人类非常不同，而且关于味觉的数据很少， 处理以比较人类与啮齿动物的感觉能力 physiology. 这项研究采用了一种新的方法， 从一个行为动物的记录，以探索如何在活动中， 灵长类大脑皮层与行为有关 响应 皮质的特征和功能组织将 以确定人类的数据 心理物理学研究与电生理学研究相匹配 数据 这种新方法将为以下方面提供重要数据： 化学感觉科学，用于比较 味觉皮层与其他感觉皮层区域，以及 进一步了解大脑活动如何成为感知的基础 和行为。

Taste is a very important sense because it is involved in food selection and preference, and related to hunger, ingestion, and nutritional aspects of behavior. Most studies of taste have involved rodents, which have aspects of physiology and behavior very different from humans, and there are few data on gustatory processing to compare human sensory capabilities with rodent physiology. This study utilizes a novel approach of chronic recording from a behaving animal to explore how activity in the cortex of a primate brain correlates to behavior. Response characteristics and functional organization of the cortex will be explored, to determine how well data from human psychophysical studies are matched by electrophysiological data. This novel approach will provide data important for chemosensory science, for comparing functional organization of gustatory cortex with other sensory cortical areas, and for further understanding how brain activity underlies perception and behavior.