Taste Flashcards

1
Q

What does gustation stand for?

A

TASTE

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2
Q

What is the tounge covered with?

A

Chemoreceptors

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3
Q

Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Salty

A

foward

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4
Q

Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
sour

A

middle/rear

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5
Q

Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
-Sweet

A

foward

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6
Q

Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
bitter

A

middle of tounge

The most!!

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7
Q

Where on the tounge is this most responsive to?
umami

A

back

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8
Q

does the tounge respond more to unplesant or pleasent tase?

A

unplesant

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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

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10
Q

what is the gustatory cortex linked with?

A

the limbicsystem

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