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