Here's a sample from a research paper "Functional Significance of the Co-Localization of Taste Buds and Teeth in the Pharyngeal Jaws of the Largemouth Bass, Micropterus salmoides" from the website http://www.biolbull.org/search.dtl. In this study they fed bass food balls by attaching them to monofilament and moving them around in front of the bass. They used balls with no flavoring and balls with a shrimp flavor. The interesting part to me was that they found that the bass would swallow the flavored balls, but eject the unflavored. The time for ejection was 3 seconds on average. What that translates to for me is that I have about three seconds from the time a bass hits to set the hook. This explains why I seem to hook more biters on plastics than my friends who wait to set the hook.
The point is you have to read the entire paper to dig out the pertinent information. This paper was not about "How to Set The Hook on Largemouth Bass". There are discusions of how Bass feed and what their retention of memory is in many of the papers and once you dig it out and put them together you get the picture. Or you could not bother and just sort of guess.