Your nose tastes odors in a way that upends decades of understanding
newatlas.com
For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the brain’s primary taste cortex, overturning decades of assumptions about how flavor is built.

For the first time, scientists have discovered that smell and taste are inseparable much earlier in the brain than we thought. New research shows that odors can actually be coded as tastes in the brain’s primary taste cortex, overturning decades of assumptions about how flavor is built.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.ukEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Probably the best thing my brain has coded in years, to be fair.

    My Python looks like it’s been written by Stevie Wonder with a hatred of anything beyond the floppy disk era.