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Do you taste with your tongue or your brain?

26 October 201426 October 2014 Myers P3: What am I?neuroscience

Maybe it’s your brain that tricks you into preferring more expensive things? Or is it your mind? How foodies were duped into liking McDonald’s.

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rung2diotimasladder says:

26 October 2014 at 6:54 pm

Got a kick out of this article. I’m definitely guilty of choosing wines by their labels.

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