SUMMARY Taste stimuli are adsorbed to the receptors of taste buds. This leads to a change in the receptor membrane permeability and an excitation of the taste nerves. The quantitative relation between the magnitude of taste receptor response and the concentration of the stimulus can be expressed by a hyperbolic equation. Application of this equation to human taste responses is useful for further predictions and generalizations.
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Lloyd M. Beidler (1966) studied this question.
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