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Kobayashi and colleagues · PLoS ONE
In a brain recording study of nine adults recalling the taste of foods named on a screen, the brain's taste area became active in seven people, and in five of them a frontal area became active first. When the foods were shown as pictures, the taste area was active in six people but the frontal area in only one. The authors take this as support for the idea that frontal areas start taste imagery by calling up taste memories.
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