Mid Term Flashcards
Flavor
Taste plus touch plus smell
Multimodal
When different things act to creat a whole experience of taste
Oral-somatosensory
Sensations in mouth that give rise to feeling
Gustatory sense
5 different tastes Sweet Salty Sour Bitter Unami(savory)
I ripe bananas contain
Serotonin
Our brains are at the top of our body because
It’s key purpose is to find food, smell and eat it
Our taste system to end result
Mouth
Taste buds (epiglottis, posterior, anterior)
Cranial nerves
Nucleus of solitary tract
Brain stem and oral somatosensory system
Spinal trigeminal nucleus
Thalamus
What is more important to taste than our mouths?
Olfactory system
Retro nasal olfaction
After chewing molecules are released to the nasopharynx and stimulate receptors on the olfactory epithelium
Anosmia
Not being able to smell
Thresholds for different tatses
Low for bitter
High for sweet and salty
What is the neurotransmitter that carries out a lot of the action basil ganglia
Dopamine
Three types of taste papillae
Fungi form (25%)
Circumvallate (50%)
Foliate (25%)
Taste papillae order
Fungiform, foliate, circumvallate
Tip and back of tongue different tastes
Tip -sweet, Unami, salty
Back - sour and bitter