Other senses Flashcards

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Gustation (TASTE)

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Taste is a chemical sense because a substance is what is detected (not just energy like in sight and hearing).

This is done through our taste buds.

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Gustation (TASTE)

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Taste buds regenerate
approximately every two weeks.

“Supertasters” are individuals with
more papillae (therefore, more taste
buds) on their tongues.

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TASTEs

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Traditional taste sensations consisted of 4 tastes…
Sweet
Sour
Salty
Bitter
Umami: An inherent savoriness. Described as brothy or meaty
Astringent: Puckers the mouth, numbs tongue, constricts throat – present in unripe bananas, pomegranates, cranberries, red meat, burnt/smoked food

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Olfaction (Smell)

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Like taste, smell is a chemical sense. Odorants (molecules of the object you are smelling) enter the
nasal cavity to stimulate 5 million receptors to sense smell. The olfactory epithelium is responsible for detecting odorants, and is at the roof of the nasal cavity about 7cm above & behind the nostrils. Human can detect about 10,000 odors

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Olfaction (Smell)

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1 = Olfactory bulb
2 = Mitral celss
3 = Bone
4 = Nasal epithelium
5 = Glumerulus
6 = Olfactory receptor cells

Olfactory receptors in the nasal
cavity regenerate approximately
once a month.

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Smell and Memory

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Notice where the hippocampus is.

Where’s the olfactory bulb?

Nice and close to where memories are made

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Sensory Interaction

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When one sense affects another sense, sensory interaction takes place.

The taste of fruit interacts with its smell and its texture on the tongue to produce the taste.

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