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Your Brain Can Taste without Your Tongue

Nov 19, 20153 min
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Episode description

Stimulating the "taste cortex" was enough to trick mice into thinking they'd tasted sweet or bitter substances, when in fact their tongues tasted nothing at all. Christopher Intagliata reports

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