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The labeled line / basic taste versus across-fiber pattern debate: A red herring?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2008

Edward Alan Fox
Edward Alan Fox
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Department of Psychological Sciences, Behavioral Neurogenetics Laboratory and Ingestive Behavior Research Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. au_gc@psych.purdue.eduhttp://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/PULSe/faculty.cfm?fid=41&range=1
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Abstract

Why has the labeled line versus across-fiber pattern debate of taste coding not been resolved? Erickson suggests that the basic tastes concept has no rational definition to test. Similarly, however, taste neuron types, which are fundamental to the across-fiber pattern concept, have not been formally defined, leaving this concept with no rational definition to test. Consequently, the two concepts are largely indistinguishable.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 79 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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