Publications de Riccardo Accolla

Internal body state influences topographical plasticity of sensory representations in the rat gustatory cortex

Primary sensory cortices are remarkably organized in spatial maps according to specific sensory features of the stimuli. These cortical maps can undergo plastic rearrangements after changes in afferent ("bottom-up") sensory inputs such as peripheral lesion ...

National Academy of Sciences2008

Analysis of taste processing in rat gustatory cortex

Riccardo Accolla

Gustatory perception is a complex phenomenon involving the recognition of sensory properties of a food (taste modality and intensity, flavour, texture, fat content, temperature) as well as its reward value (pleasantness and nutritional value). The sense of ...

EPFL2007

Differential spatial representation of taste modalities in the rat gustatory cortex

Carl Petersen, Brice Bathellier, Riccardo Accolla

Discrimination between foods is crucial for the nutrition and survival of animals. Remarkable progress has been made through molecular and genetic manipulations in the understanding of the coding of taste at the receptor level. However, much less is known ...

2007

Wavelet-Based Detection of Stimulus Responses in Time-Lapse Microscopy

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Riccardo Accolla

Many experimental paradigms in biology aim at studying the response to coordinated stimuli. In dynamic imaging experiments, the observed data is often not straightforward to interpret and not directly measurable in a quantitative fashion. Consequently, the ...

IEEE2006