Chemical Senses, Multisensory Integration

Question 1

The technical terms for taste and smell

Answer 1

Gustation- taste, olfaction- smell

Question 2

What are the core tastes

Answer 2

sweet, sour, bitter, salty, salty, umami. (recently- starch?)

Question 3

Describe the types of tasters

Answer 3

Hypotasters (fewer taste buds, papillae), normal, super/hyper taster (stronger taste than normal)

Question 4

2 routes of smell are..

Answer 4

Orthonasal (via inhalation), retronasal (chewing/swallowing)

Question 5

What structure do similar smell receptor cells project to

Answer 5

Glomerulus

Question 6

What’s the Proust effect

Answer 6

Link between smell and memories

Question 7

Which 2 top-down effects can influence smell

Answer 7

Effect of learning (wine tasters), effect of labelling (worsen a smell)

Question 8

What are key features effect multisensory perception of smell

Answer 8

Texture, pain (sweet/sour to overcome chilli), sound (background noise, less tasty), vision (art inspiration)

Question 9

McGurk effect

Answer 9

Hear/see two different sounds (perception is a different word)

Question 10

Rubber Hand Illusion

Answer 10

Rubber hand attached to body can feel like it is actually your own arm, when occluded by a screen and pain presented

Question 11

Kinaesthesia

Answer 11

Sense of body’s motion

Question 12

Proprioception

Answer 12

sense of body’s position

Question 13

Multisensory receptive fields

Answer 13

one neuron may detect several different sensory modalities

Question 14

Synaesthesia

Answer 14

i.e. tasting shapes