PSY 30440 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ammonium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Olfactory Mucosa
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Taste and flavor: taste = correlated with experience multisensory experience so also depends on vision and olfaction, basic taste qualities, 1. Umami described as meaty, brothy, or savory and associated with msg: structure of taste system, tongue contains papillae, which have different forms, 1. Filiform: shaped like cones and located over entire surface no taste buds: 2. Fungiform: shaped like mushrooms and found on sides and tip taste buds: 3. Foliate: series of folds on back and sides taste buds: 4. Circumvallate: shaped like flat mounds in a trench located at back taste buds: approximately 10,000 taste buds, transduction occurs when chemicals contact the receptor sites on the tips, different kinds of receptor cells, 1. Receptor cells: for bitter, sweet, and umami cells not in direct contact with cranial nerves so do one of two things: 1. Send messages to the presynaptic cells which leads to brain communication: 2. Release atp which directly stimulates cranial nerve: 2.
