The first successfully recorded event-related potential (ERP) for taste, one of our basic senses, was published nearly half a century ago. Despite this large time span, surprisingly little is known about the early neural processing of taste perception. Here, we are providing a comprehensive and critical overview of over four decades of research, with a focus on the temporal dimension of cerebral taste processing in healthy humans. For this purpose, we review studies using techniques that permit a high temporal resolution, namely, electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography, ERP, and event-related magnetic fields (ERF). Our current knowledge of taste ERP is interpreted in the context of our understanding of other, nonchemical senses. Gaps in the existing literature are identified and discussed. Finally, we suggest directions for future investigations using gustatory ERP/ERF.

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品味时间——味觉早期大脑处理的回顾。


第一个成功记录的味觉事件相关电位（ERP）是我们的基本感官之一，于近半个世纪前出版。尽管时间跨度很长，但令人惊讶的是，人们对味觉感知的早期神经处理知之甚少。在这里，我们对四十多年的研究进行了全面而批判性的概述，重点是健康人类大脑味觉处理的时间维度。为此，我们回顾了使用允许高时间分辨率的技术的研究，即脑电图和脑磁图、ERP 和事件相关磁场 (ERF)。我们目前对味觉 ERP 的了解是在我们对其他非化学感官的理解的背景下解释的。确定并讨论了现有文献中的差距。最后，我们为未来使用味觉 ERP/ERF 的研究提出了方向。