Max Planck Institute for Brain Research 1 article published in JoVE Neuroscience New Methods to Study Gustatory Coding Alejandra Boronat-García*1, Sam Reiter*1,2, Kui Sun1, Mark Stopfer1 1National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2Max Planck Institute for Brain Research We present three new methods to study gustatory coding. Using a simple animal, the moth Manduca sexta (Manduca), we describe a dissection protocol, the use of extracellular tetrodes to record the activity of multiple gustatory receptor neurons, and a system for delivering and monitoring precisely timed pulses of tastants.
