Tongue taste map fraud-The tongue has never had separate areas for taste!

not all brains wired the same.some may have siphoned too much super unleaded back in the day.

A Taste bud has the ability to recognise all tastes.

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The theory behind this map originated from a paper written by Harvard psychologist Dirk P. Hanig, which was a translation of a German paper, Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes, which was written in 1901.[2] The unclear representation of data in the former paper suggested that each part of the tongue tastes exactly one basic taste.[3][4]

The paper showed minute differences in threshold detection levels across the tongue,[5] but these differences were later taken out of context and the minute difference in threshold sensitivity was misconstrued in textbooks as a difference in sensation.[6]

While some parts of the tongue may be able to detect a taste before the others do, all parts are equally capable of conveying the qualia of all tastes. Threshold sensitivity may differ across the tongue, but intensity of sensation does not.[6]

The same paper included a taste bud distribution diagram that showed a "taste belt".[7]

In 1974, Virginia Collings investigated the topic again, and confirmed that all the tastes exist on all parts of the tongue.[8]


So why the hell was I taught this in school?

Last Edited by JADR+ on 04/20/2020 08:44 AM

so, does sperm taste salty or sweet to your tongue ?

Why don't you ask your mum?

I was just thinking about this the other day and thought it seems like bullshit

Indeed - it has been 'officially' bullshit for the last 46 years!

Last Edited by JADR+ on 04/20/2020 08:55 AM

come back JADR , where are you ????


another bullshit one -- toilets in Australia no longer go clockwise , and vise versa in n 'hemisphere'

and now Coriolis effect no longer exists for snipers either

its like 100 years of spiral mechanics , never happened


where are you JADR ????

Anyway, I had always had the impression that this division could not be right. Even as a child I had noticed that the tongue could taste pretty much coherent everywhere.

Taste is a sense that is a combination of the sense of feeling and the sense of smell.

If your mouth and tongue were numb you could smell the food you were about to eat but not being able to feel it you would say you can't taste it as it would make no sensation in your mouth.

If you close your nose and eat you will be able to feel the texture or how it is affecting your mouth but without smelling you could mistake foods in a blindfold test if trying to tell by feeling alone as some foods have similar textures.

It's why kids in older movies were portrayed as closing their noses before eating food they didn't want to eat, it prevents them from "tasting" it.

do you think there is mandela involved?
the toilet deal was a common belief
was vaguely aware of the sniper effect