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human
How did the "different parts of the tongue sense different tastes" myth start? Did any actual scientists believe this?
gpt
The misconception started with the 1901 paper *Zur Psychophysik des Geschmackssinnes* by Edwin Boring. The data contained within the paper showed that certain areas of the tongue have small differences when it comes to detecting tastes. When this paper was translated into English.....it wasn't done well, and the data wasn't interpreted correctly, leading to the erroneous claim that the tongue is made of areas that detect one taste each. This is the origin of the tongue map, and this was more or less the only research available on the topic in English at the time, so it quickly made its way into all sorts of textbooks....and the rest is history.