article_snippet.sent: The idea that your tongue is separated into ‘zones’ for different tastes has been widely debunked - although the exact process taking place is still poorly understood.
article_snippet.sent: But now, for the first time, scientists have created a live imaging map of the tongue's taste buds to determine what happens each time we place food in we mouths.
article_snippet.sent: A Harvard-led study has mapped taste buds on a tongue for the first time.
article_snippet.sent: The breakthrough complements recent studies by other research groups that identified the areas in the brain associated with taste.
article_snippet.sent: According to Assistant Professor Myunghwan (Mark) Choi from the Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, this suggests tasting might The teaminvolve an interaction between the food taken orally and blood composition.
article_snippet.sent: The team now hopes to develop an experiment to monitor the brain while imaging the tongue to track the full process of taste sensation.
article_snippet.sent: However to fully understand the complex interactions that form our basic sense of taste could take years, Dr Steve Lee from The Australian National University (ANU)
article_snippet.sent: ‘Until we can simultaneously capture both the neurological and physiological events, we can't fully unravel the logic behind taste,’ Dr Steve Lee from The Australian National University (ANU) said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Harvard-led study mapped taste buds on a tongue for the first time .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Researchers now want to study how the brain responds to taste .