Editing Insular cortex (section)

=== Taste ===
The anterior insula is part of the primary [[gustatory cortex]].<ref>{{Cite book   | last1 = Marieb | first1 = Elaine N.  | first2 = Katja | last2 = Hoehn  | title = Anatomy & Physiology, Third Edition  | location = Boston  | publisher = Benjamin Cummings/Pearson  | year= 2008  | pages = 391–395  | isbn = 978-0-8053-0094-9  }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Pritchard|first=TC|author2=Macaluso, DA |author3=Eslinger, PJ |title=Taste perception in patients with insular cortex lesions.|journal=Behavioral Neuroscience|date=August 1999|volume=113|issue=4|pages=663–71|pmid=10495075|doi=10.1037/0735-7044.113.4.663}}</ref> Research in rhesus monkeys has also reported that apart from numerous taste-sensitive neurons, the insular cortex also responds to non-taste properties of oral stimuli related to the texture (viscosity, grittiness) or temperature of food.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Verhagen |first1=Justus V. |last2=Kadohisa |first2=Mikiko |last3=Rolls |first3=Edmund T. |date=September 2004 |title=Primate Insular/Opercular Taste Cortex: Neuronal Representations of the Viscosity, Fat Texture, Grittiness, Temperature, and Taste of Foods |url=https://www.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/jn.00321.2004 |journal=Journal of Neurophysiology |language=en |volume=92 |issue=3 |pages=1685–1699 |doi=10.1152/jn.00321.2004 |pmid=15331650 |issn=0022-3077|url-access=subscription }}</ref>