Taste Flashcards
What does gustation stand for?
TASTE
What is the tounge covered with?
Chemoreceptors
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Salty
foward
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
sour
middle/rear
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Sweet
foward
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
bitter
middle of tounge
The most!!
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
umami
back
does the tounge respond more to unplesant or pleasent tase?
unplesant
Explain how taste work…the process
-APs from taste receptors carried through axons of vagus, facial, and glossopharyngeal nerves to medulla oblongata
-relayed to thalamus and then to gustatory cortex
what is the gustatory cortex linked with?
the limbicsystem