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Science 6 October 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4056, pp. 73 - 75
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4056.73
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Taste Stimuli: Time Course of Peripheral Nerve Response and Theoretical Models

John R. Faull 1 and Bruce P. Halpern 1

1 Department of Psychology and Section of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850

The responses of a taste nerve in rats to sodium chloride were integrated over successive 10-millisecond intervals and averaged. The time course of the mean responses consisted of a 30-millisecond latency, a rapid rise to a maximum, and a slower decline to a sustained level. The chemoreceptor theories of Beidler and Paton failed to predict the relation between phasic response and time or concentration.


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