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Your Brain Can Taste without Your Tongue

Nov 19, 2015 · 3 min
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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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