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For most people, biting into a lemon would leave them puckered up and desperate to lose that sour flavor, but a new study revealed that roughly one in eight adults like intensely sour sensations. The ...

Music composed to evoke sweetness or sourness engaged taste-related brain regions and strengthened gustatory and sensorimotor ...