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Every sense we possess exists on a continuum, with some people exhibiting far more sensitivity than others.There are not only super-seers, but also super-tasters and super-smellers and tactile sensitives and golden ears!
“We've known for a long time that people don't all live in the same taste world," John Hayes, an assistant professor of food science at the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences, told CNN recently.
"There are super-tasters and non-tasters," Hayes added. "Super-tasters live in a neon taste world – everything is bright and vibrant. For non-tasters, everything is pastel. Nothing is ever really intense."
Super-tasters have twice as many taste buds as normal people. And they perceive bitter tastes more strongly and tend to crave salt, which blocks bitterness, researchers say. In addition to super-tasters, there are non-tasters and medium tasters.
Studies have proven that 25 percent of people are non-tasters, 50 percent are medium tasters, and 25 percent are super-tasters. Super-tasters tend to be women more often than men, and people from Africa, Asia, and South America are more likely to have the trait than others.
“The super-taster gene could be a remnant of our evolutionary past, acting as a safety mechanism to stop us eating unsafe foods and toxins,” the BBC reported. It also has health benefits today, as super-tasters tend to avoid fatty and sugary foods.
People with enhanced powers of hearing are not called “super-hearers” but “golden ears.”
Dr. Bill Budd of the University of Newcastle in England told ABC News that it’s not a gift you necessarily want. “Hearing isn't like other senses; if a light is too bright we can always close our eyes or turn away, but our hearing is always 'on,' even when we are asleep, and super-sensitivity would be quite impairing,” said Budd.
"We would be surrounded by such a cacophony of sound we wouldn't hear anything very well."
Golden ears can be very sensitive to some aspects of sound but not others, he explained. They may hear very soft sounds, high-frequency sounds, or tiny timing differences in how sounds reach each ear, but very few golden ears have better-than-average ability in all those ways.
Those with extraordinary senses of touch are referred to as having “tactile sensitivity.” This is also often a bothersome super-sense because a person may feel everything from annoyance to pain in response to normal touch. Those on the autism spectrum are often affected this way.
As with the rest of the senses, tactile sensitivity is more about how the brain processes tactile input than about the skin itself. In some extreme cases, children are so overwhelmed by the sense that they refuse to even swallow solid food.
As far as olfactory superpowers, all humans are far more sensitive to smell than previously believed. It was once believed that humans could discern just ten thousand odors. A team of researchers from Rockefeller University published findings in the journal Science in 2014 that blew away that idea. New estimates put our powers of smell around one trillion scents.
Even with that high a threshold, there are those among us whose olfactory powers are off the charts. Synesthete and painter Carrie Barcomb of Pennsylvania has such extraordinary sensitivity that she can smell when another person has a stomach virus (“sour”) and when she herself has a new cavity (“something burning”).
