PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture 9: Hunger and the Chemical Senses
20 Mar 2017
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Npy: another hunger cue you were likely experiencing came from neuropeptide y (npy) Why not the entire box? : the liver monitors your glycogen stores and blood sugar levels, low blood glucose and low glycogen levels serve as signals of hunger while high glucose and high glycogen stores are signals of satiety. These rats who received cck ate more total meals per day than the controls, and so the total daily food intake was actually the same for both groups. Signi cance of tastes: throughout the course of evolution, foods that are bitter or sour are associated with. Cultural in uences: although these universal taste responses guide your consumption of food, taste preference is also shaped by cultural in uences which presumably were shaped by local food availability, just like any other trait, there are individual differences in taste sensitivity. Unit 6: how taste is processed in the brain.
