Haptic Perception
____ ____ is our impression of the postition of our bodies.
Body image
_____ are any of the various chemicals
emitted by humans that are detected by
the olfactory system and that may have
some effect on the mood, behavior,
hormonal status, and/or sexual arousal of
other humans.
Chemosignals
Taste sensitivity is highest among women in which trimester of pregnancy?
Linda Bartoshuk found that supertasters could have up to 60 of what type of papillae in the tested template area?
Fungiform Papillae
What is the exploratory procedure of static contact best used to determine?
Temperature
The three cells found in the Olfactory Epithelium are Support cells, Basal cells, and _____?
Olfactory receptors
Saliva acts as an important solvent in gustation due to most tastants having what property?
Most tastants are hydrophillic
Why do supertasters have an increased risk of colon cancer?
Supertasters experience a greater bitter taste response to vegetables, lowering their preference for veggies and their intake, leading to a higher chance of colon polyps developing which increases the risk of colon cancer
What is the center of a reference frame
used to represent locations relative to the body known as?
Egocenter
In Olfactory Hedonics, avoidance of a novel flavour after it has been paired with gastric illess is known as what?
Learned taste aversion
This type of papillae has the most taste buds and taste receptors.
Foliate Papillae
Why do nontasters have an increased risk of head and neck cancers?
less sensitive to the bitterness found in alcohol and smoking, more likely to consume, increasing the risk of head and neck cancer development over supertasters
Receptors for the CT Afferent System are not found on what type of skin?
Glabrous skin
The Primary olfactory cortex is located near which structures in the brain?
Amygdala-hippocampal complex and the Entorhinal cortex
A sour beverage tasting too sour after
eating a sweet substance is an example of what process?
Cross Adaptation
When tasters were asked to wear headphones and match the sweetness of a coke to the loudness of a tone, it is know as what?
Crossmodal Matching
In the experiment by Ackerley et al., which skin sites were found to elicit the most emotional descriptors when stroked?
Forearm and Cheek
What is the chemical sensing organ at the base of the nasal cavity with a curved tubular shape is known as?
The Vomeronasal organ
In the experiment by Swithers and Davidson, what happened to the rats fed with saccharine instead of glucose?
The rats fed with saccharine gained significantly more weight than the rats fed with glucose.
Is Umami a taste?
Convince me why, or why not.