What Are the Basic Tastes? Which Is the Most Recently

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What are the basic tastes? Which is the most recently discovered?

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Definitions:

Disinhibition

The reduction or removal of inhibition, resulting in an increase in previously suppressed behaviors or actions.

Sensitization

An increased response to a stimulus following repeated exposure, usually associated with adverse or noxious stimuli.

Habituation

A learning process where an organism reduces its responsiveness to a non-threatening stimulus over time through repeated encounters.

Stimuli

External or internal events that elicit a response from an organism.