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Associative learning changes cross-modal representations in the gustatory cortex by Vincis, Roberto, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…A growing body of literature has demonstrated that primary sensory cortices are not exclusively unimodal, but can respond to stimuli of different sensory…”
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Dynamics of multistable states during ongoing and evoked cortical activity by Mazzucato, Luca, Fontanini, Alfredo, La Camera, Giancarlo

“…Single-trial analyses of ensemble activity in alert animals demonstrate that cortical circuits dynamics evolve through temporal sequences of metastable states…”
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Spatially Distributed Representation of Taste Quality in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Behaving Mice by Chen, Ke, Kogan, Joshua F., Fontanini, Alfredo

“…Visual, auditory, and somatosensory cortices are topographically organized, with neurons responding to similar sensory features clustering in adjacent portions…”
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Dynamic Representation of Taste-Related Decisions in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Mice by Vincis, Roberto, Chen, Ke, Czarnecki, Lindsey, Chen, John, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…Research over the past decade has established the gustatory insular cortex (GC) as a model for studying how primary sensory cortices integrate sensory,…”
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Processing of Intraoral Olfactory and Gustatory Signals in the Gustatory Cortex of Awake Rats by Samuelsen, Chad L, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…The integration of gustatory and olfactory information is essential to the perception of flavor. Human neuroimaging experiments have pointed to the gustatory…”
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Temporal progression along discrete coding states during decision-making in the mouse gustatory cortex by Lang, Liam, La Camera, Giancarlo, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…The mouse gustatory cortex (GC) is involved in taste-guided decision-making in addition to sensory processing. Rodent GC exhibits metastable neural dynamics…”
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State Dependency of Chemosensory Coding in the Gustatory Thalamus (VPMpc) of Alert Rats by Liu, Haixin, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…The parvicellular portion of the ventroposteromedial nucleus (VPMpc) is the part of the thalamus that processes gustatory information. Anatomical evidence…”
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Neural processing of gustatory information in insular circuits by Maffei, Arianna, Haley, Melissa, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…Highlights ► Gustatory information is processed by the insular cortex. ► The insular cortex is composed by three subdivisions (granular, dysgranular and…”
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Processing of hedonic and chemosensory features of taste in medial prefrontal and insular networks by Jezzini, Ahmad, Mazzucato, Luca, La Camera, Giancarlo, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…Most of the research on cortical processing of taste has focused on either the primary gustatory cortex (GC) or the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). However, these…”
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Central role for the insular cortex in mediating conditioned responses to anticipatory cues by Kusumoto-Yoshida, Ikue, Liu, Haixin, Chen, Billy T., Fontanini, Alfredo, Bonci, Antonello

“…Significance Classical studies have been focused on understanding the role of gustatory areas in evaluating the sensory component of taste. However, recent…”
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Behavioral States, Network States, and Sensory Response Variability by Fontanini, Alfredo, Katz, Donald B

“…1 Department of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and 2 Department of Neurobiology and…”
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Encoding and tracking of outcome-specific expectancy in the gustatory cortex of alert rats by Gardner, Matthew P H, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…In natural conditions, gustatory stimuli are typically expected. Anticipatory and contextual cues provide information that allows animals to predict the…”
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Stimuli Reduce the Dimensionality of Cortical Activity by Mazzucato, Luca, Fontanini, Alfredo, La Camera, Giancarlo

“…The activity of ensembles of simultaneously recorded neurons can be represented as a set of points in the space of firing rates. Even though the dimension of…”
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LTD at amygdalocortical synapses as a novel mechanism for hedonic learning by Haley, Melissa S, Bruno, Stephen, Fontanini, Alfredo, Maffei, Arianna

“…A novel, pleasant taste stimulus becomes aversive if associated with gastric malaise, a form of learning known as conditioned taste aversion (CTA). CTA is…”
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Natural stimuli evoke dynamic sequences of states in sensory cortical ensembles by Jones, Lauren M, Fontanini, Alfredo, Sadacca, Brian F, Miller, Paul, Katz, Donald B

“…Although temporal coding is a frequent topic of neurophysiology research, trial-to-trial variability in temporal codes is typically dismissed as noise and…”
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State-Dependent Modulation of Time-Varying Gustatory Responses by Fontanini, Alfredo, Katz, Donald B

“…Department of Psychology and Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Submitted 3 August 2006; accepted in final…”
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Thalamic contribution to cortical processing of taste and expectation by Samuelsen, Chad L, Gardner, Matthew P H, Fontanini, Alfredo

“…Taste-related information reaches the gustatory cortex (GC) through two routes: a thalamic and a limbic pathway. While evidence is accumulating on…”
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Learning-Related Plasticity of Temporal Coding in Simultaneously Recorded Amygdala-Cortical Ensembles by Grossman, Stephen E, Fontanini, Alfredo, Wieskopf, Jeffrey S, Katz, Donald B

“…Emotional learning requires the coordinated action of neural populations in limbic and cortical networks. Here, we performed simultaneous extracellular…”
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Slow-waves in the olfactory system: an olfactory perspective on cortical rhythms by Fontanini, Alfredo, Bower, James M.

“…Over the past few years, it has become clear that oscillatory dynamics of cortical networks are closely involved in sensory coding, attention, memory and…”
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Distinct Subtypes of Basolateral Amygdala Taste Neurons Reflect Palatability and Reward by Fontanini, Alfredo, Grossman, Stephen E, Figueroa, Joshua A, Katz, Donald B

“…The amygdala processes multiple, dissociable properties of sensory stimuli. Given its central location within a dense network of reciprocally connected…”
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