Munger is associate director of the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste and professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Florida. Everybody has seen the tongue map ...

The traditional taste map of the tongue that is taught in school is a myth. The idea that tastes like salt and sweet are ...

One evening a couple of years ago, Charles Spence, the experimental psychologist who directs the Crossmodal Research Laboratory, was conducting an experiment to map ... fake tongue, can you also ...

You probably came across the tongue taste map, a theory that states that different sections of the tongue are exclusively correlated with different basic tastes – sweet, sour, salty, bitter and ...

The map’s mistakes are easy to confirm. If you place a lemon wedge at the tip of your tongue, it will taste sour, and if you put a bit of honey toward the side, it will be sweet. The perception ...

concluding that much of what we know about taste mapping is incorrect, and there’s still much to discover about how tongues function. That map of the tongue you may have learned in school?

Because of this, all parts of the tongue can detect these four common tastes. The commonly described “taste map” of the tongue doesn't really exist. Tongue problems include a variety of ...