sensation and perception in taste

Question 1

Gustatory perception definition

Answer 1

the process of becoming consciously aware of flavor

Question 2

What is the primary sensory organ for detecting gustatory information

Answer 2

the tongue

Question 3

process of gustatory sensation

Answer 3

• when chewing our saliva breaks down our food into tastants
• tastants are received by our gustatory receptors located within our tastebuds
  -tastents are converted to a neural impulse
  -information about flavors makes its way to the primary gustatory cortex

Question 4

Tastants definition

Answer 4

the sensory stimuli received in the form of chemical molecules that can be tasted

Question 5

taste buds definition

Answer 5

clusters of gustatory receptors

Question 6

primary gustatory cortex defenition

Answer 6

a sensory area in the parietal lobe responsible for receiving and processing taste

Question 7

top- down processing in gustatory

Answer 7

fills gaps based on past experience

top down processing
- prior knowledge and expectations such as schemas
- select features from a sensory stimuli that align with prior knowledge and expectations
- perception

Question 8

bottom- up in gustatory

Answer 8

processing tastes you have no schema for

bottom up processing
- detecting sensory stimuli
- analysing specific features and combining them into a more complete form
- perception