Not so fast: Taste stimulus coding time in the rat revisited

Behavioral and electrophysiological studies suggest that rats can identify a taste stimulus with a single lick, in <200 ms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the number of licks of a tastant, its concentration and prior learning experience will modulate identification. In Experiment 1A, we...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michael S. Weiss, Patricia M. Di Lorenzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
Subjects:
rat
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2012.00027/full