Talk:Acquired taste

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Here are some tasks you can do: Cleanup: Do something about the horrible mess that is the examples section Expand: Neuroscience and evolutionary biology behind changes in perception (perhaps something similar to habituation?).
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[edit] Split article

The early history for this article can be found on list of acquired tastes which used to be named Acquired taste and which I moved before splitting the two articles. —mako๛ 19:06, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

There's very little here - should we just redirect it to taste? I've already added the entire content there, which was omitted up until now. The evolutionary biology aspects behind it interest me - I imagine this occurs in most animals, allowing them to avoid eating foods they are unfamiliar with. This is well documented in rats. Even so, as is the article doesn't warrant a separate page. Richard001 05:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, though the article didn't previously mention it, there are of course non-gustatory forms of 'acquired taste', such as appreciating music for example. Sadly I don't seem to be able to dig up any material on the subject at all - gustatory or otherwise. Richard001 07:23, 3 August 2007 (UTC)