Taste is all in your head

Tweaking mouse brain cells turns water bitter or sweet

mouse reacting to bitter water

SENSORY DELUSION  By creating a bitter perception by tweaking nerve cell behavior in this mouse, scientists show that taste perception lies in the brain.

Y. Peng et al/Nature 2015

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It’s not water into wine, but close enough. By stimulating certain nerve cells in the brains of mice, scientists made plain water taste sweet or bitter.