PSYC 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Body Odor, Jelly Bean, Candy Cane
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Smell, first, close your eyes and hold your nose while you eat the jelly bean half from the toothpick your partner hands you. Mint: then, eat the other half of the jelly bean with your eyes and nose open. Mint: which half of the jelly bean was easier to identify. It was easier to distinguish the taste when my nose was open, because that allowed air to move through my nasal cavity and through the retronasal route to stimulate my taste buds and olfactory mucosa. Glutamate: top-down influences on the chemical senses, explain one specific example of how taste can be influenced by top-down processing. Each group rated the wine as tasting better than the wine, even though they were the same wine. Participants were given a spray of clean air and were told that it was either cheddar or body odor.
