By Stimulating Taste Pathways in the Brains of Rats Who

By stimulating taste pathways in the brains of rats who were not exposed to sucrose but using firing patterns of neurons that were recorded from rats who were drinking a sucrose solution, researchers determined that ______.

A) neural firing patterns are random
B) neural firing patterns can encode visual but not taste stimuli
C) neural firing patterns can encode taste stimuli
D) neurons do not synchronize their firing rates