Origins of the taste map. That familiar but not-quite-right map has its roots in a 1901 paper, Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes, by German scientist David P Hänig. Hänig set out to measure ...

Taste receptors for salty, sweet, bitter and sour are found all over the tongue. Tongue via www.shutterstock.com Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with ...

Contrary to what you may have learned in school, different areas of the tongue don’t detect different flavors—instead, each taste bud has all five taste receptors built in.

Different areas of the tongue can taste anything, but although some regions are slightly more sensitive to certain tastes, those differences, in Steven Munger’s words are “minute”.-- ...

Tour the Tongue. By David Levin; Posted 06.01.09; NOVA scienceNOW; How does our sense of taste work, and why did it evolve? What are taste buds, and how do they register the five basic sensations ...

The taste bud diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a 1901 study but was actually showing the sensitivity of different areas of the tongue.

THE CLAIM The tongue is mapped into four areas of taste. THE FACTS High school textbooks call it the tongue map – that colorful illustration that neatly divides the human tongue into sections ...

The long-term goal is to interact directly with the brain areas which are stimulated by the sense of taste, which offers the possibility of sharing the experience of taste and flavor.

The ability to taste sweet, salty, sour and bitter isn’t sectioned off to different parts of the tongue. The receptors that pick up these tastes are actually distributed all over.

Everybody has seen the tongue map — that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different taste receptors. Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides ...