Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
ISBN: 9780231542876
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Wine tasting; Food -- Sensory evaluation;

A pioneer of neurogastronomy writes an engaging treatment of the brain's role in creating the taste of wine.


Gordon M. Shepherd is professor of neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine and former editor in chief of the Journal of Neuroscience . His books include Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters (Columbia, 2012), Handbook of Brain Microcircuits (2010), and Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s (2009).
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