AIUI, different areas of the tongue do have different concentrations of the various sensors. The tongue map taken literally as “you taste salt only here, sweet only here, bitter only there” is wrong, but that the different areas represented are indeed more sensitive.
AIUI, different areas of the tongue do have different concentrations of the various sensors. The tongue map taken literally as “you taste salt only here, sweet only here, bitter only there” is wrong, but that the different areas represented are indeed more sensitive.