How do the 5 senses work? Pick 1 and find out about it (consult 3 sources) and blog.
Taste
As one of the imfamous senses, taste, formally known as gustation, intelinks with smell to help the brain create a beautiful perception of flavour, in which it separates an savoury item, into categories such as sweet, sour, spicy, salty and bitter.
As all humans on this planet know, you acquire flavour with the sensory organ called the 'tongue', in which receptor cells for taste are found, and is part of the central nervous system.
Neuroscientists and Psychophysicists are in close relation with studying the brain's response to signals sent from the tongue when a compound is detected. These special 'life scientists', have discovered regions within the tongue that are 'taste specific', as seen in the map of taste receptors below.
Did you know?
A supertaster is a person whose sense of taste is signficicantly more acute than average! It has been clinically tested that Women, in the Asian, African and South American regions are amongst these top tasters. Although it may seem very 'cool' to have millions of taste buds crammed in what seems to be a rather small organ, it comes with the price of turning into a 'picky eater' due to the heightened taste of foods, such being able to taste the extreme bitterness of dark chocolate, even if it's mixed with other ingredients.
That tastes horrible!
Ah, the aftertaste! The persistence of a sensation of flavour even after the stimulating substance has passed, however, not all are pleasant, such as a person hating the long-lasting tuna taste in their mouth and his or her friends staying well away from his/her breath!
Factors affecting taste perception
Aging
Vision impairments
Hormonal Influences
Genetic Variations
Oral temperature
Drugs and Chemicals
Central Nervous System Tumours
Plugged noses
Any illnesses relating to taste?
Like any other sense, it comes with its weaknesses or illnesses that come along with it, such as ageusia which is the complete loss of taste (just like a man/woman who is blind, losing his or her sense organ, the eyes). Other illnesses relating to taste include hypogeusia (partial loss of taste), Parageusia (having unplesant tastes despite good food) and dysgeusia (having inaccurate tastes, such as being given a hot chili, and one can only be able to taste the sweetness of it instead of the spicyness etc)
As all humans on this planet know, you acquire flavour with the sensory organ called the 'tongue', in which receptor cells for taste are found, and is part of the central nervous system.
Neuroscientists and Psychophysicists are in close relation with studying the brain's response to signals sent from the tongue when a compound is detected. These special 'life scientists', have discovered regions within the tongue that are 'taste specific', as seen in the map of taste receptors below.
Did you know?A supertaster is a person whose sense of taste is signficicantly more acute than average! It has been clinically tested that Women, in the Asian, African and South American regions are amongst these top tasters. Although it may seem very 'cool' to have millions of taste buds crammed in what seems to be a rather small organ, it comes with the price of turning into a 'picky eater' due to the heightened taste of foods, such being able to taste the extreme bitterness of dark chocolate, even if it's mixed with other ingredients.
That tastes horrible!
Ah, the aftertaste! The persistence of a sensation of flavour even after the stimulating substance has passed, however, not all are pleasant, such as a person hating the long-lasting tuna taste in their mouth and his or her friends staying well away from his/her breath!
Factors affecting taste perception
Aging
Vision impairments
Hormonal Influences
Genetic Variations
Oral temperature
Drugs and Chemicals
Central Nervous System Tumours
Plugged noses
Any illnesses relating to taste?
Like any other sense, it comes with its weaknesses or illnesses that come along with it, such as ageusia which is the complete loss of taste (just like a man/woman who is blind, losing his or her sense organ, the eyes). Other illnesses relating to taste include hypogeusia (partial loss of taste), Parageusia (having unplesant tastes despite good food) and dysgeusia (having inaccurate tastes, such as being given a hot chili, and one can only be able to taste the sweetness of it instead of the spicyness etc)
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