Recent review of the molecular biology of taste: Bachmanov and Beauchamp
(2007).
English translation of Kikunae Ikeda’s 1909 paper on umami: Ikeda (2002).
The identifications of the capsaicin/hot and menthol/cold receptors are
described by Caterina et al. (1997) and McKemy, Neuhausser, and Julius
(2002). Review of molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in percep-
tions related to chili, menthol, and mustard: Gerhold and Bautista (2009).Chapter 14
On mapping the distribution of cone and rod photoreceptors in the human
retina: Curcio, Sloan, Kalina, and Hendrickson (1990).
The amino acid sequence of human rhodopsin was obtained by sequencing
the nucleotides of the gene encoding rhodopsin and then deducing the
amino acid sequence using the genetic code: Nathans and Hogness (1984).
Visual perception, from photoreceptors to high-level brain processes: Kandel
et al. (2013, chaps. 25-29).
Chapter 15
Inner ear and auditory central nervous system: Kandel et al. (2013, chaps. 30-
31).Chapter 16
Neurosurgical investigations of the human cerebral cortex: Penfield and
Rasmussen (1950); Penfield’s first description of the cortical somatosensory
and motor maps can be found in Penfield and Boldrey (1937).
Representation of genitals on cortical somatosensory map: recent investiga-
tions suggest dual representations—on the medial surface of the cortex,
adjacent to the representation of the foot (as indicated in Fig. 16.4), andin
the anatomically expected location on the body map, between torso and leg: