Figure 1.

Across-neuron patterns of response evoked by each taste stimulus across 162 NST neurons recorded from anesthetized rats. For each plot, spike count (average number in 1 s) is represented along the ordinate, and neurons are segregated from left to right along the abscissa into best-stimulus groups (sucrose-, NaCl-, HCl-, and quinine-best, respectively), as denoted by black and halftone bars. Cells are rank ordered within each group according to magnitude of responding to their best stimulus.