Taste of time: A porous-medium model for human tongue surface with implications for early taste perception.

Most sensory systems are remarkable in their temporal precision, reflected in such phrases as "a flash of light" or "a twig snap". Yet taste is complicated by the transport processes of stimuli through the papilla matrix to reach taste receptors, processes that are poorly underst...

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Main Authors: Zhenxing Wu, Kai Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-06-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007888