AP Psychology Sensation Project: Taste

taste preferences

choice and preference for how the sense of taste reacts to certain chemicals

sensory interaction

how one sense can connect to another (example : when your nose is clogged so you can't really tell what food taste like because the two senses are linked)

papillae

protuberance on the top of the tongue that contains taste buds

five basic taste sensations

salty, sour, sweet, bitter, umami

nontasters

someone who has the least amount of taste perception

supertasters

someone whose sense of taste are more intense than that of the average person

gustatory system

system for the sense of taste

Pathway of tasting

the connection of the gustatory context of the brain that connects to the nerves and the sensory neurons tot allow us tot taste

gustation

the mouth's ability to tell the difference between sweet, sour, bitter , and salty properties

chemical sense

the nerve's response to a chemical stimulation

transduction

the process by which a virus transfers bacteria to another.

umami

the savory response to salts of glutamic acid

gustatory cortex

the structure in the brain in charge of the sense of taste