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Chem. Senses 27: 629-634, 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

Gustatory Evoked Cortical Activity in Humans Studied by Simultaneous EEG and MEG Recording

Chie Mizoguchi, Tatsu Kobayakawa, Sachiko Saito and Hisashi Ogawa1

Human Perception and Cognition Group, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi 1-1, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan 1 Department of Physiology, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Honjo 2-2-1, Kumamoto 862-0811, Japan

Correspondence to be sent to: Tatsu Kobayakawa, Human Perception and Cognition Group, Neuroscience Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Higashi 1-1, Tsukuba 305-8566, Japan. e-mail: kobayakawa-tatsu{at}aist.go.jp

Evoked potentials are widely used in clinical medicine for objective evaluation of sensory disturbances. However, gustatory evoked potentials (GEPs) have not been extensively studied due to lack of agreement among investigators regarding the waveforms. In this study GEPs and gustatory magnetic fields (GEMfs) were simultaneously recorded from five subjects in response to 0.3 M NaCl in an attempt to establish GEP recording as an objective gustatometer. Each subject received a total of 240 stimulus presentations over six sessions. Three GEP components (P1, N1 and P2) were observed and correlated with their corresponding equivalent current dipoles (ECD1, ECD2 and ECD3, respectively). ECD1 was localized to area G in all subjects, P1 being the indicator of intact gustatory projection to area G. No significant GEP activity was detected during the time preceding P1, which suggests that there was no activity in cortical gyri other than that detected by magnetoencephalography. ECD2 and ECD3 were localized to various cortical structures, including the inferior insula and the superior temporal sulcus, indicating that N1 and P2 reflect higher order gustatory functions. The present results indicate that measurement of GEPs may be useful for objective evaluation of gustatory disturbance.


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