The taste of the food determines the brain, not the language

In school we talked about what language are specific areas that are responsible for tastes – salty, bitter, sour, sweet and spicy. American scientists have discovered that this is not so. According to them, each of several thousands of sensors on the tongue is able to recognize the entire palette. All the matter in our brain.

A study by researchers at Columbia University showed that for a specific answer not taste receptors on the tongue, and the cells in the brain. After reviewing about 8,000 taste buds of language, the researchers found that each of them is able to identify any of the five basic tastes, reports "Bi-bi-si". The study was published in the scientific journal Nature.

The discovery refutes the myth that, for example, only the tip of the tongue is responsible for sweet, and casts doubt on the so-called "taste map".

During a scientific experiment it was found that the brain has special neurons that decode the signals from taste receptors on the tongue. Each taste receptor has up to 100 alarms. How exactly the brain processes the information received, it is not clear, but it was revealed that the decision on taste is received in the brain, not in your mouth.

The study was conducted on rodents that were fed chemical substances with different taste. The researchers then observed how individual neurons light up in fluorescent color. According to scientists, the relationship between language and brain is very close and it is configured perfectly. The results of the study give hope that one day doctors will learn to return the lost ability to taste food, for example, the elderly.

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