<P> The same paper included a taste bud distribution diagram that showed a "taste belt". </P> <P> In 1974, Virginia Collings investigated the topic again, and confirmed that all the tastes exist on all parts of the tongue . </P> <P> The misinterpreted 1901 diagram in the article that sparked this myth shows human taste buds distributed in a "taste belt" along the outside of the tongue . </P> <P> Prior to this, A. Hoffmann had concluded, in 1875, that the dorsal center of the human tongue has practically no fungiform papillae and taste buds, and it was this finding that the diagram describes . </P>

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