Neuroscience of taste: unlocking the human taste code

Abstract Since antiquity human taste has been divided into 4–5 taste qualities. We realized in the early 1970s that taste qualities vary between species and that the sense of taste in species closer to humans such as primates should show a higher fidelity to human taste qualities than non-primates (...

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Published in:BMC Neuroscience
Main Author: Göran Hellekant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-03-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12868-024-00847-2