The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Now, it's amazing because just taking a little bit of sugar or something sour like a little bit of lemon juice and touching it to the tongue within 100 milliseconds, right? Just 100 milliseconds, far less than one second, you can immediately distinguish ah, that's sour, that sweet, that's bitter, that's umami, and that's an assessment that's made by the cortex.
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Now, it's amazing because just taking a little bit of sugar or something sour like a little bit of lemon juice and touching it to the tongue within 100 milliseconds, right? Just 100 milliseconds, far less than one second, you can immediately distinguish, ah, that's sour, that's sweet, that's bitter, that's umami.
You know the time scale of the nervous system it's fast. Yeah. And >> within less than a second. >> Yeah. And and in fact we can demonstrate this because we can stick electrodes at each of these stations. You deliver the stimuli and within a fraction of a second you see now the response in this following stations.