Table 1.

Essential features of new and previously recorded data

	New	Rosen and Di Lorenzo (2009)
Number of cells	51	51
Taste-responsive	42	36
Non-taste-responsive	9	15
Mean spontaneous rate, sps	2.5 ± 0.2	1.7 ± 0.4
Mean uncertainty	0.76 ± 0.03	0.69 ± 0.04
Mean selectivity, sps	8.5 ± 1.4	10.3 ± 1.4
Sucrose best	8	7
NaCl best	21	20
HCl best	11	7
Quinine best	2	2
Mean CT response latency, ms	12.9 ± 1.3	10.9 ± 1.2
Mean CT response jitter, ms	4.8 ± 0.4	4.0 ± 0.3

Values are means ± SE. CT, chorda tympani; sps, spikes per second.