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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 15, 1999, 19(4):1532-1540
Responses to the Sensory Properties of Fat of Neurons in the Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex
Edmund T. Rolls1, Hugo D. Critchley1, Andrew S. Browning1, Istvan Hernadi2, and Laszlo Lenard2 1 University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford OX1 3UD, Great Britain, and 2 Department of Physiology, University of Pecs, Pecs H-7643, Hungary
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Abstract
Introduction
The primate orbitofrontal cortex is a site of convergence of information from primary taste, olfactory, and somatosensory cortical areas. We describe the responses of a population of single neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex that responds to fat in the mouth. The neurons respond, when fatty foods are being eaten, to pure fat such as glyceryl trioleate and also to substances with a similar texture but different chemical composition such as paraffin oil (hydrocarbon) and silicone oil [Si(CH3)2O)n]. This is evidence that the neurons respond to the oral texture of fat, sensed by the somatosensory system. Some of the population of neurons respond unimodally to the texture of fat. Other single neurons show convergence of taste inputs, and others of olfactory inputs, onto single neurons that respond to fat. For example, neurons were found that responded to the mouth feel of fat and the taste of monosodium glutamate (both found in milk), or to the mouth feel of fat and to odor. Feeding to satiety reduces the responses of these neurons to the fatty food eaten, but the neurons still respond to some other foods that have not been fed to satiety. Thus sensory-specific satiety for fat is represented in the responses of single neurons in the primate orbitofrontal cortex.
Fat is an important constituent of food that affects its palatability and nutritional effects. The findings described provide evidence that the reward value (or pleasantness) of the mouth feel of fat is represented in the primate orbitofrontal cortex and that the representation is relevant to appetite.
Key words: fat; food; mouth; oral; orbitofrontal cortex; olfaction; taste; hunger; satiety
INTRODUCTION
In previous investigations of the neural bases of taste, olfaction, and feeding in primates (E. T. Rolls, 1994
, 1995
Fat is an important component of normal food intake in primates, and it is palatable. Humans are natural omnivores, who like macaques have evolved to take in a diet (after weaning) that consists of vegetable matter supplemented by protein-rich and fat-rich food sources that are a valuable source of essential amino acids and essential fats. Mechanisms that sense and regulate the dietary intake of fat are of great importance clinically. In particular, high dietary fat intake is strongly implicated in the etiology of cardiovascular morbidity and deaths. Studies of satiety in normal human subjects indicate that high-fat foods may not produce satiety or reduce hunger ratings to the same degree as isocaloric high-carbohydrate or high-protein foods, and that foods containing fat may be overeaten in terms of and because of their high energy density (Johnson and Vickers, 1993
MATERIALS AND METHODS Recordings. Recordings were made from single neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex, which included both the medial and lateral areas in which taste and olfactory responses have been described previously (Rolls and Baylis, 1994
Localization of recordings. X-radiography was used to determine the position of the microelectrode after each recording track relative to permanent reference electrodes and to the anterior sphenoidal process. This is a bony landmark whose position is relatively invariant with respect to deep brain structures (Aggleton and Passingham, 1981
Screening of neurons. Orbitofrontal cortex cells were tested for their responsiveness to taste, olfactory, and visual stimuli. The gustatory stimuli that were used included 1.0 M glucose, 0.1 M NaCl, 0.01 M HCl, 0.001 M quinine-HCl, and 0.1 M monosodium glutamate (MSG). The concentrations of most of the tastants were chosen because of their comparability with our previous studies, and because they are in a sensitive part of the dose-response curve. The monkey's mouth was rinsed with distilled water during the intertrial interval (which lasted at least 30 sec, or until neuronal activity returned to baseline levels) between taste stimuli. The stimuli within a set were delivered in random sequence. The stimuli were delivered by mouth in quantities of 0.2 ml with a hand-held 1 ml syringe. For chronic recording in monkeys, this manual method for stimulus delivery is used because it allows for repeated stimulation of a large receptive surface despite different mouth and tongue positions adopted by the monkeys (Scott et al., 1986a
To test for the oral effects of fat on neuronal activity, a set of fat and fat-related stimuli were delivered in the same way with a pseudorandom sequence. The fat stimuli included "single" cream (cream) (18% fat), "double" cream (47.5% fat), triolein, groundnut oil, and "half-fat" milk (milk) (1.8% fat, which is categorized as low fat in the United States). (For comparison, "skimmed milk" contains 0.1% fat.) These were used to examine whether fat is represented in the responses of cortical (taste) neurons. Cream was used because it was found to be a palatable high-fat food, in that it was readily ingested by monkeys compared with vegetable oil, lecithin, and vegetable oil or lecithin emulsions. Half-fat milk (1.8% fat) and skimmed milk (0.1% fat) were used to investigate whether the neurons would respond to lower concentrations of fat. [We note that macaques are omnivorous; after weaning they very readily accept milk-based products, and lactose intolerance is rare (Streett and Jonas, 1980
Responses to odorants were determined either using a perfumer strip method or an olfactory discrimination task (Critchley and Rolls, 1996a
Satiety experiments. At the start of the experiments on each day, the monkey was hungry, having been fed ~14 hr previously. Satiety experiments were performed on cells having effective and reliable responses to the mouth feel of fat. The responses of the neuron to a subset of pure tastants (and to natural food odors if the cell had an olfactory response) were measured before and after satiation. In most cases, single cream was used to produce satiety, and the corresponding test stimulus was the same cream. In some of the experiments it was possible to record the responses of the cells to the cream at intermediate stages of satiation. For each stimulus, between 4 and 10 trials were performed to ensure statistical validity. Aliquots of 10 ml of the satiating solution were fed to the monkey, during which the behavioral response to the solution was observed. The behavioral acceptance of this solution was rated according to the criteria used previously (Rolls et al., 1989
1.0 = clear rejection, pursing the lips to prevent administration of the solution, and failure to swallow all of the solution placed in the mouth;
RESULTS The data described here were obtained during 283 recording tracks in three monkeys. Out of 1145 neurons in the orbitofrontal region tested for gustatory responses, 11 neurons (0.96%) had responses to fat stimuli (10 to fat in the mouth and 1 to the odor of cream). The differential effect was confirmed statistically by one-way ANOVAs of the neuronal responses across a range of stimuli that typically included fat stimuli such as cream and of the neuronal responses to the tastants [i.e., glucose, NaCl, HCl, MSG, and quinine] (Rolls et al., 1996b
The responses of an example of a neuron (be0511) that responded to fat in the mouth but not to taste stimuli are shown in Figure 1. The neuron responded to cream with 47.5% or 18% fat. The neuron also increased its firing rate to a pure fat (triolein) and a natural fat (vegetable oil). The neuron also responded to substances that are not chemically fat but had a similar texture, namely paraffin oil (pure hydrocarbon) and silicone oil [Si(CH3)2O)n]. In a preplanned ANOVA to test its responsiveness to cream (47.5% and 18%), fat (triolein and vegetable oil), and substances with a fat-like texture (silicone oil and paraffin oil), the ANOVA was significant (p < 0.001), and the post hoc Dunnett's test showed that there was a significantly increased firing rate to cream (p < 0.001) and the fat-like texture as a combined group (p = 0.012).
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Figure 1. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron (be0511) to fat in the mouth and to stimuli with a similar texture but not to taste. The mean response of the neuron and the SEM are shown. The spontaneous firing rate is shown. The fat stimuli were cream (47.5 and 18%), milk containing 1.7% fat, triolein, and vegetable oil. The chemically different stimuli with a similar texture were silicone oil [Si(CH3)2O)n] and paraffin oil (hydrocarbon). The taste stimuli were 1.0 M glucose (Gluc), 0.1 M NaCl, 0.01 M HCl, 0.001 M quinine-HCl (Q), 0.05 M monosodium glutamate (MSG), and distilled water (H2O).
An example of a bimodal neuron that responded both to the texture of fat in the mouth and to taste is shown in Figure 2 (be047). The neuron responded to cream (47.5% and 18% fat; see below for statistics). The neuron responded to pure fats (triolein and vegetable oil; see below), and its response was based on texture: its firing rate also increased to paraffin oil and to silicone oil, the nonfat substances with a fat-like texture. The neuron also had a taste response, in that it responded to 0.05 M monosodium glutamate. [This was shown statistically to be a taste response, in that there was a significant one-way ANOVA result performed across the tastants only (i.e., glucose, NaCl, HCl, MSG, and quinine), showing differential responses across the set of tastants, and by a subsequent Dunnett's test showing a significant response to monosodium glutamate; p < 0.001.] In a preplanned ANOVA followed by a post hoc Dunnett's test with the spontaneous rate as the comparison condition, to test its responsiveness to fats and related stimuli, it was found that the ANOVA was significant and that the neuron had significant responses to cream (47.5% and 18%; p < 0.001 for the combined group), fat (triolein and vegetable oil; p < 0.05 for the combined group), and substances with a fat-like texture (silicone oil and paraffin oil; p < 0.001 for the combined group).
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Figure 2. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron (be047) to fat in the mouth, to stimuli with a similar texture, and to the taste of MSG. Conventions as in Figure 1.
An example of another neuron with bimodal taste and fat responses, to illustrate broader tuning to taste, is shown in Figure 3 (au143a). The neuron also increased its firing rate to the mouth feel of astringency produced by tannic acid, which is sensed through the somatosensory system (Critchley and Rolls, 1996c
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Figure 3. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron (au143a) to fat in the mouth, to stimuli with a similar texture, and to some of the taste stimuli. Conventions as in Figure 1. Responses to tannic acid (0.001 M), blackcurrant juice (BJ), and eating pieces of banana and apple are also shown. Oral stim., Mechanical stimulation (see Materials and Methods); Spont., spontaneous firing rate.
An example of a neuron that responded to the odor of cream is shown in Figure 4 (au142b). Before the monkey was fed to satiety, the neuron responded to the odors of cream, apple, and banana, but not to the odor of caprylic acid (plastic). The monkey was then fed to satiety with cream, of which he consumed 80 ml. The rating for the acceptance of cream changed from +2 to
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Figure 4. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron to the odor of some foods, including that of cream, apple, and banana. The neuron did not respond to the odor of caprylic acid. After feeding to satiety with 80 ml of cream, the rating for the acceptance of cream changed from +2 to
Sensory-specific satiety-related decreases in neuronal responses were also found for neurons responding to the texture of fat. An example is shown in Figure 5 (au159). The neuron responded to taste (with a best response to acid) and also to fat (tested with cream and groundnut oil). After feeding to satiety with cream, the response of the neuron decreased to cream in the mouth but not significantly to groundnut oil (as shown by a two-way ANOVA; p < 0.02). This is an indication that even between fats there can be sensory-specific satiety effects, although these could be contributed to by the taste inputs received by this neuron. After feeding to satiety with cream, there were even small increases to some stimuli, as is common with sensory-specific satiety at both the neuronal level in macaques and the behavioral level in humans (Rolls and Rolls, 1997
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Figure 5. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron to the texture of the fats cream and groundnut oil and to different tastes before and after feeding to satiety with cream. Conventions as in Figures 1, 3, and 4.
To extend the ecological validity of the findings described for this new class of neuron in the orbitofrontal cortex described here, we investigated whether this type of neuron would respond to the fat in other types of fatty food. In particular, the fat and fat-related stimuli described so far were liquid, and it was of interest to investigate whether the neurons would respond to fatty solid foods such as nuts. Such testing is illustrated for neuron bb027 in Figure 6. The neuron responded to fats or fat-related stimuli (e.g., cream, vegetable oil, and paraffin oil) and had a small response to some taste stimuli (e.g., sour, HCl). The neuron had no response to a wide range of odors (data not shown). The neuron also significantly increased its firing rate when the monkey was eating peanuts, chocolate, and chocolate-hazelnut spread, and it was found that the firing rate to these foods was higher if they were emulsified to liquid form by blending with a small amount of water. The neuron did not respond significantly when the monkey was eating solid apple, so the increases to eating solid forms of fat were not because of chewing. This investigation indicated that this neuron responded when a solid fatty food is being chewed and eaten, and at the same time indicated that the fat-sensing system in the mouth can produce larger effects on these orbitofrontal neurons when the solid fatty food is made into a more liquid texture, which occurs partly by chewing, and can be produced by emulsification.
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Figure 6. Responses of a primate orbitofrontal cortex neuron (bb027) to fat in the mouth, to stimuli with a similar texture, and to some of the taste stimuli. Conventions as in Figure 1. The neuron also responded when the monkey was eating peanuts, chocolate, and chocolate-hazelnut (Choc-hazel) spread, with a greater increase of firing rate to each if they were emulsified by blending with a small amount of water (l) compared with when they were solid (s). The responses to all the fat and fat-related stimuli and to HCl were significantly greater than the spontaneous rate (in the majority of cases, p < 0.001) as shown by a Dunnett's post hoc test after a significant one-way ANOVA (p < 0.001). The neuron did not respond when the monkey was eating solid apple.
A summary of the testing and response properties of the neurons with responses to fat in the mouth [or fat-related stimuli in terms of texture such as silicone oil and paraffin oil in the mouth (or in one case smelled)] is shown in Table 1. The firing rates of the neurons in spikes/sec are shown for the taste stimuli to which the neurons had significant increases in firing rate in the ANOVA and post hoc test. The firing rates of the neurons in spikes/sec are shown for all the fat and fat-related stimuli tested. (These firing rates were all significant increases in the post hoc Dunnett's test for each stimulus compared with the spontaneous rate, except where indicated by NS. Even in these latter cases, the responses to pure fat or fat texture stimuli were typically significant in preplanned groupings, as described under the descriptions of the responses of cells be0511 and be047.) For example, we note that 7 of the 10 neurons that responded to cream in the mouth also responded to at least one of the other fat stimuli or to the combined fat stimulus group. The 11 neurons shown in Table 1 came from a sample of 1145 neurons investigated in the orbitofrontal cortex. Of the nine neurons with responses to fat in the mouth fully tested for both taste and fat-related responses, seven responded to both taste and fat, and two did not respond to taste. Of six neurons tested for whether the effect of eating fat to satiety decreased the response of the neuron to fat, all showed sensory-specific satiety effects. For one neuron the effect measured was a sensory-specific reduction in the response to the odor of cream with which the monkey had been fed to satiety, and for one neuron the effect measured was to both the sight of cream (to which the neuron responded) and its mouth feel.
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Table 1. Summary of the testing and response properties of the orbitofrontal cortex neurons Localization of recordings
The reconstructed positions of the neurons in this study are shown on Figure 7. Neurons responsive to fat are shown by triangles, neurons also shown to receive a taste input are shown by circles, and neurons also shown to receive an olfactory input are indicated by squares. The neurons were located within the orbitofrontal cortical area.
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Figure 7. The reconstructed positions of the neurons in this study. A, Neurons responsive to fat are shown by triangles, neurons responsive to fat and taste are shown by circles, and fat-related neurons shown to receive an olfactory input are indicated by squares. The neurons were located within the orbitofrontal cortical area. (For one macaque the reconstructions are based on the histology and the x-ray data for every track, and for the other they are based on the x-ray data for every track and a standard atlas calibrated in x-ray coordinates.) B, A lateral view of the macaque brain showing the levels with respect to sphenoid of the coronal sections shown in A.
DISCUSSION The results described here show that there is a population of neurons in the primate orbitofrontal cortex that responds to the sensory properties of fat in the mouth. The responses of individual neurons to fats were typically highly significant (in the majority of cases with p
0.001). Although the proportion of neurons responding in this way over the whole sample of neurons is small (11/1145 = 0.96%), the actual proportion clearly depends on the extent to which the correct area for the neurons (Fig. 7) has been sampled. Indeed, in the recordings in monkey au, 6 of 320 neurons (1.9%) recorded in the orbitofrontal cortex had responses to fat stimuli. The areas in which these neurons were found were in the caudal orbitofrontal cortex, in an area that includes and probably extends medial to the secondary taste cortex as defined by the cortex receiving inputs from the primary taste cortex (Baylis et al., 1994
The actual proportion of fat-responsive neurons in the orbitofrontal cortical regions that contain representations of the mouth feel of fat is likely to be higher than the proportion found here (0.96%), for a number of reasons. First, of the cells isolated, it was not possible to perform sufficient testing on all to prove that they did not respond to fat. (For 4 of 16 cells tested very extensively with fat, it was possible to show that they did not respond to fat.) Second, not all of the recording tracks were necessarily into the main areas (Fig. 7) where neurons with responses to fat were located. Part of the evidence for this is that in one monkey (au, in which the tracks were presumably directed more at these neurons), the proportion of cells was 6/320 (1.9%). We note that although this proportion of neurons responding to fat in the orbitofrontal cortex is low, the proportion of neurons responding to other types of stimuli in this region is also quite low. For example, Rolls and Baylis (1994)
Some of the findings provide evidence that the responsiveness of the neurons is sensed by the mouth feel (texture) of fat and not by chemical sensing. First, some of the fat-responsive neurons can be unimodal, responding to the mouth feel of fat and not to taste. Second, of the neurons that respond to fat and taste stimuli, each is tuned to have best responses to a different set of tastes (Figs. 2, 3, 4, 6), so that there is no special "taste" tuning of the fat-responsive neurons that accounts for their responses to fat. Third, when sensory-specific satiety to fat is produced, the responses of the same neuron to taste may be little affected or even increased, so that the responses to fat do not appear to be produced through taste channels (i.e., channels with chemical selectivity). Fourth, all of the neurons tested responded to stimuli that were chemically different from fat but had a similar mouth feel, because this would be sensed through the somatosensory system. These stimuli included silicone oil [Si(CH3)2O)n] and paraffin oil (hydrocarbon).
The mouth feel of fat appropriate for sensing fat in food is what affects these neurons somewhat selectively, in that the same neurons did not respond when the monkey ate nonfat solid food such as apple, nor when the inside or outside of the mouth was mechanically stimulated with cotton buds, nor when a nonfood object was chewed (such as tubing). Having said this, the data recorded from the neuron shown in Figure 6 showed that this neuron was more affected by fat in a liquified, emulsified form than in a solid form (as shown by the experiments with solid and liquified chocolate, nuts, and chocolate-hazelnut mixture). This seems entirely plausible, in that it is the mouth feel of slickness that tends to help humans identify a food as fat-containing. Although testing with solid forms of fat was performed mainly for this neuron, in one additional neuron (be216) we found that although the neuron did respond to liquid fat, when a specially prepared more solid form of cream was tested (described commercially as extra thick cream), the neuronal firing to this was much less (5.5 spikes/sec) than to normal double cream. Taken in the context of the findings with sensory-specific satiety, an implication is that these neurons would be more effectively activated during the eating of a fatty meal if the fat is in liquid form. This more effective activation of these neurons by liquid fat might result in more rapid sensory-specific satiety (because the total sensory stimulation would build up more quickly), resulting in more rapid sensory-specific satiety with fat in liquid than in more solid form. The implication is that eating food slowly and chewing it well (to emulsify it), or taking foods containing fat in a form in which the fat is liquid, would be expected to reduce the total amount of fat consumed. This could have implications for dieting and body weight control. It would be of interest to test these implications as well as to obtain data from additional neurons tested with fats with different physical properties.
It has been suggested that fats might also be detected in the mouth based on free fatty acid sensing by taste cells (Gilbertson et al., 1997
The present results extend the known sensory mechanisms by which sensory-specific satiety can be produced. The present results provide evidence that it can be produced by the mouth feel of fat and also by stimuli that have been associated with these by learning (Rolls et al., 1996a
The findings described here that the neuronal responses to the sensory properties of fat decrease to zero when the monkey is fed to satiety with fat, and that the acceptability of the fat to the monkey at the same time decreases to zero, provide an indication that it is the reward value of the fat that is represented in the primate orbitofrontal cortex. This is entirely consistent with the fact that the primate orbitofrontal cortex supports good brain- stimulation reward and that this brain-stimulation reward is hunger dependent (Mora et al., 1979
In conclusion, the data presented here are the first showing the representation of the sensory properties of fat in cortical neurons in a region where there are taste neurons and, in some cases, within neurons that are responsive to tastes. These findings are important to the study of feeding behavior and body weight control, because almost all previous work on the satiating effects of fats have concentrated on peripheral signaling of fat ingestion through hormonal mediators such as cholecystokinin and leptin (Rolls, 1999a
FOOTNOTES Received Sept. 25, 1998; revised Dec. 1, 1998; accepted Dec. 7, 1998.
This research was supported by Medical Research Council Grant PG8513790 to E.T.R., and by a British Council/Hungarian Academy of Sciences grant to L.L. and E.T.R.
Correspondence should be addressed to Professor E. T. Rolls, University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, Great Britain.
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A. Chale-Rush, J. R. Burgess, and R. D. Mattes
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R. D. Mattes
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I. L. Ber, E. Guedj, A. Gabelle, P. Verpillat, M. Volteau, C. Thomas-Anterion, M. Decousus, D. Hannequin, P. Vera, L. Lacomblez, et al.
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X. Protopopescu, H. Pan, M. Altemus, O. Tuescher, M. Polanecsky, B. McEwen, D. Silbersweig, and E. Stern
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A. C. Spector and S. P. Travers
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T. C. Pritchard, E. M. Edwards, C. A. Smith, K. G. Hilgert, A. M. Gavlick, T. D. Maryniak, G. J. Schwartz, and T. R. Scott
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J. Neurosci., June 29, 2005; 25(26): 6047 - 6056.
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M. Kadohisa, E. T. Rolls, and J. V. Verhagen
Neuronal Representations of Stimuli in the Mouth: The Primate Insular Taste Cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala
Chem Senses, June 1, 2005; 30(5): 401 - 419.
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E. T. Rolls
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Chem Senses, January 1, 2005; 30(suppl_1): i76 - i77.
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J. V. Verhagen, M. Kadohisa, and E. T. Rolls
Primate Insular/Opercular Taste Cortex: Neuronal Representations of the Viscosity, Fat Texture, Grittiness, Temperature, and Taste of Foods
J Neurophysiol, September 1, 2004; 92(3): 1685 - 1699.
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I. E. de Araujo and E. T. Rolls
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J. Neurosci., March 24, 2004; 24(12): 3086 - 3093.
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B. K. Smith Richards, B. N. Belton, B. York, and J. Volaufova
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E. T. Rolls, J. V. Verhagen, and M. Kadohisa
Representations of the Texture of Food in the Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex: Neurons Responding to Viscosity, Grittiness, and Capsaicin
J Neurophysiol, December 1, 2003; 90(6): 3711 - 3724.
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M.L. Kringelbach, J. O'Doherty, E.T. Rolls, and C. Andrews
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