Psychology A185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Olfactory Bulb, Menstrual Synchrony, Taste Bud

• School: Orange Coast College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology A185
• Professor: Norris

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Gustation: taste only respond to four qualities: sweet, sour, salty and bitter. All other taste experience combines the four qualities and other senses. Tongue has chemical, tactile (touch), and temperature receptors: taste buds: chemical receptors that each respond predominantly to one/two basic taste qualities (minor responses to other qualities as well) Umani: taste sensation that increases sensitivity of other taste qualities. Few receptors are found in roof and back of mouth for people without tongues to taste. Substance in mouth reacts with saliva to form a chemical solution that flows into the taste pore (opening on surface of tongue) and stimulates receptor cells. Receptors for smell are long cells that project through lining of upper part of nasal caviy and into the mucous membrane. Olfactory receptors recognize diverse odours individually rather than by mixing activity of small number of basic receptors (i. e. taste)