Taste Flashcards
1
Q
What does gustation stand for?
A
TASTE
2
Q
What is the tounge covered with?
A
Chemoreceptors
3
Q
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Salty
A
foward
4
Q
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
sour
A
middle/rear
5
Q
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Sweet
A
foward
6
Q
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
bitter
A
middle of tounge
The most!!
7
Q
Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
umami
A
back
8
Q
does the tounge respond more to unplesant or pleasent tase?
A
unplesant
9
Q
Explain how taste work…the process
A
-APs from taste receptors carried through axons of vagus, facial, and glossopharyngeal nerves to medulla oblongata
-relayed to thalamus and then to gustatory cortex
10
Q
what is the gustatory cortex linked with?
A
the limbicsystem
