Vocabulary Flashcards
Perception
The acquisition and processing of sensory information.
Percept
An object or event that represents information about our environment.
Receptor
A cell able to respond to light, heat, or other external stimulus and transmit a signal to a sensory nerve.
Retronasal
Smelling through mouth.
Orthonasal
Smelling through nose.
Tastant
Taste-provoking chemical molecules that are dissolved in saliva.
Aroma
Scent, fragrance or smell of something. Could be pleasant or not.
Gustation
The action or faculty of tasting.
Olfaction
The action or capacity of smelling.
Chemical sense
Smelling and tasting.
Physical sense
Hearing, touch, and vision.
Threshold
The magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a certain reaction, phenomenon, result, or condition to occur or be manifested.
Chemesthesis
Sensibility of the skin and mucous membranes. Chemesthetic sensations arise when chemical compounds activate receptors associated with other senses that mediate pain, touch, and thermal perception.
Traditionalist
Someone that believes in tradition and keeping things th way they are (ex: Hating “my version” of something like eggs benedict).
Phenolics
A class of chemical compounds consisting of a hydroxyl group (—OH) bonded directly to an aromatic hydrocarbon group (aroma and smells).
Esters
An organic compound made by replacing the hydrogen of an acid by an alkyl or other organic group. Many naturally occurring fats and essential oils are esters of fatty acids.
Terpenes
A large and diverse class of organic compounds, produced by a variety of plants, particularly conifers, though also by some insects such as termites or swallowtail butterflies, which emit terpenes from their osmeteria.
Aldehydes
An organic compound containing a functional group with the structure −CHO, consisting of a carbonyl center (a carbon double-bonded to oxygen) with the carbon atom also bonded to hydrogen and to an R group, which is any generic alkyl or side chain.
Amines
An organic compound derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms by organic groups.
Sensory lexicon
Vocabulary set spcecific to a certain topic.
Multimodality
Other attributes contributing to a part of the flavor perception.
