In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Instead of learning through repeated trial and error or experiences, one-shot learning is when a single experience creates a ...

Three nerves carry taste signals to the brain stem: the chorda tympani nerve (from the front of the tongue), the glossopharyngeal nerve (from the back of the tongue) and the vagus nerve (from the ...

Taste receptors alone don’t produce tastes; they have to be connected to taste centers in the brain. In recent decades scientists have discovered receptors identical to some of those on the ...

This process involves the “representation” of the immune system in the brain and the integration of this information with sensory inputs such as taste. “We knew that the immune system can ...

Princeton neuroscientists have pinpointed the exact "memory hub" in the brain responsible for powerful food aversions in mice ...