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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #34268 Medium Artificial Tastes
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Correct Transcript:

Back in ancient times, philosophers like Aristotle were already speculating about the origins of taste, and how the tongue sensed elemental tastes like sweet, bitter, salty and sour. "What we discovered just a few years Iago is that there are regions of the brain—regions of the cortex—where particular fields of neurons represent these different tastes again, so there's a sweet field, a bitter field, a salty field, etcetera." Nick Ryba, a sensory neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health. Ryba and his colleagues found that you can actually taste without a tongue at all, simply by stimulating the "taste" part of the brain—the insular cortex. They ran the experiment in mice with a special sort of brain implant—a fiber optic cable that turns neurons on with a pulse of laser light.
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Printed "intangibles", the speaker says "philosophers"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "philosophers like Aristotle". They start with different letters, so listen to the very start of the word.

Printed "anatomies", the speaker says "colleagues"

Explanation: Listen again to "his colleagues found". The printed text shows "anatomies", but the words start with different letters, so focus on the start.

Printed "operatic", the speaker says "fiber optic"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "a fiber optic cable". The printed word says "operatic", which does not make sense before "cable", so listen from the start.

"Aristotle" matches the audio

Explanation: "like Aristotle were already" has a familiar name. It may seem odd, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"insular" matches the audio

Explanation: "the 'taste' part of the brain, the insular cortex" uses a rare word. It can look wrong, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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