Kyle is sitting down to eat dinner. He is having spaghetti, garlic bread, and vanilla ice cream for dessert. How can we explain his ability to experience the different tastes of these foods?
a) All tastes are a combination of sweet and salty.
b) We have separate receptors for thousands of possible tastes.
c) The pattern of neural activity from the receptors conveys different tastes.
d) The hypothalamus "decodes" the messages sent to it by one type of taste receptor.
ANS: c
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