Gustatory pathway

Taste.

Reception
Taste receptors are found all over the mouth, grouped in taste buds.The bases of the buds connect with cranial nerves.

Routes
The cranial nerves form the main gustatory nerve, the solitary tract. This tract splits when it reaches the brainstem.
 * One travels through the medulla to the ventroposterior medial nucleus of the thalamus, which sends out paths to the primary somatosensory cortex and the gustatory cortex.
 * The other projects through the pons to the hypothalamus and the amygdala.