This document provides an overview of multi-sensory taste perception and research from the Crossmodal Research Laboratory. It discusses how all the senses including taste, smell, sound, visual, and touch influence our perception and enjoyment of food. Key points include that we have difficulty distinguishing between tastes and smells, visual cues can strongly impact flavor perception, and sensory incongruity between different senses can elicit unexpected responses. Neuroscience research aims to better understand these multi-sensory interactions and apply them to designing novel food experiences.
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You eat food but taste perceptions. Tasting is as much about the brain as it is about taste buds and the tongue. Discover how expectations shape your experience of taste.
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You eat food but taste perceptions. Tasting is as much about the brain as it is about taste buds and the tongue. Discover how expectations shape your experience of taste.
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Title: Sense of Taste
Presenter: Dr. Faiza, Assistant Professor of Physiology
Qualifications:
MBBS (Best Graduate, AIMC Lahore)
FCPS Physiology
ICMT, CHPE, DHPE (STMU)
MPH (GC University, Faisalabad)
MBA (Virtual University of Pakistan)
Learning Objectives:
Describe the structure and function of taste buds.
Describe the relationship between the taste threshold and taste index of common substances.
Explain the chemical basis and signal transduction of taste perception for each type of primary taste sensation.
Recognize different abnormalities of taste perception and their causes.
Key Topics:
Significance of Taste Sensation:
Differentiation between pleasant and harmful food
Influence on behavior
Selection of food based on metabolic needs
Receptors of Taste:
Taste buds on the tongue
Influence of sense of smell, texture of food, and pain stimulation (e.g., by pepper)
Primary and Secondary Taste Sensations:
Primary taste sensations: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Umami
Chemical basis and signal transduction mechanisms for each taste
Taste Threshold and Index:
Taste threshold values for Sweet (sucrose), Salty (NaCl), Sour (HCl), and Bitter (Quinine)
Taste index relationship: Inversely proportional to taste threshold
Taste Blindness:
Inability to taste certain substances, particularly thiourea compounds
Example: Phenylthiocarbamide
Structure and Function of Taste Buds:
Composition: Epithelial cells, Sustentacular/Supporting cells, Taste cells, Basal cells
Features: Taste pores, Taste hairs/microvilli, and Taste nerve fibers
Location of Taste Buds:
Found in papillae of the tongue (Fungiform, Circumvallate, Foliate)
Also present on the palate, tonsillar pillars, epiglottis, and proximal esophagus
Mechanism of Taste Stimulation:
Interaction of taste substances with receptors on microvilli
Signal transduction pathways for Umami, Sweet, Bitter, Sour, and Salty tastes
Taste Sensitivity and Adaptation:
Decrease in sensitivity with age
Rapid adaptation of taste sensation
Role of Saliva in Taste:
Dissolution of tastants to reach receptors
Washing away the stimulus
Taste Preferences and Aversions:
Mechanisms behind taste preference and aversion
Influence of receptors and neural pathways
Impact of Sensory Nerve Damage:
Degeneration of taste buds if the sensory nerve fiber is cut
Abnormalities of Taste Detection:
Conditions: Ageusia, Hypogeusia, Dysgeusia (parageusia)
Causes: Nerve damage, neurological disorders, infections, poor oral hygiene, adverse drug effects, deficiencies, aging, tobacco use, altered neurotransmitter levels
Neurotransmitters and Taste Threshold:
Effects of serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) on taste sensitivity
Supertasters:
25% of the population with heightened sensitivity to taste, especially bitterness
Increased number of fungiform papillae
Physiology of taste(It is the recognition of liquid phase stimuli and also detection of chemical to the taste buds where nerve axonal fibre present but only from taste bud required for carrying information from tongue to the cortical level.
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2. ‘Cooking is probably the most multisensual art. I
try to stimulate all the senses.’
(Ferran Adrià, El Bulli)
3. “ Neuroscientists have come to realise that their
insights, from studies of the multisensory
integration can be extended to help explain
flavour perception
Psychology and cognitive neuroscience can help
create novel flavours, taste sensations and
dining experiences that can more effectively
stimulate the mind, and not just the mouth, of
the consumer”
Professor Charles Spence head of the Crossmodal Research
Laboratory based at the Department of Experimental
Psychology, Oxford University
4. Areas of Interest
• How all the senses play their own roles in our
appreciation of food
• How our enjoyment of food is affected by
other influences, our environment, our
mood, how it is presented, who prepares
it, etc.
7. One thing is certain, we all find it extremely difficult
to distinguish between tastes and smells
8. The Ventriloquist In Your Mouth
• When bacon and egg ice-cream was first
created, it was only moderately pleasant
• The breakthrough came when a piece of crispy
fried bread was added to the plate
• It appears as though the bacon is ‘ventriloquised’
towards, and hence becomes perceptually
localised within, the crispy bread, while the eggy
flavour stays behind in the more texturally
appropriate soft ice-cream
9. Aroma Sensitivity
• Humans remarkable sense of smell
• We can distinguish a diversity of odors-
approximately 10,000 scents
• Scent through the back of the mouth is called
retronasal olfaction
• Scents via the nostrils it is called orthonasal
olfaction
10. Taste Sensitivity
• Taste sensitivity refers to the intensity with which you perceive tastes and
flavors
• People with high taste sensitivity experience tastes, and usually
smells, too, as being very strong
• They are also able to distinguish individual flavors in a mixture very well
Measuring Taste Sensitivity
• People who have the active gene will taste the bitterness of
PROP, whereas people who have an inactive gene will not taste anything
• The more taste buds you have; the stronger the taste signal your brain
receives, whether from PROP or from natural food
• The more attentive you are to a stimulus, the stronger it may seem
11. Taster Types
Mildly sensitive tasters Moderately sensitive Highly sensitive tasters
tasters
Weak to undetectable Moderate to strong Very strong sensation
sensation from PROP and sensation from PROP and from PROP and mint
mint mint
The flavor of food is not The flavor of food is The flavor of food is
that important important important
Many foods liked; few Many foods liked; few Great variation in the
foods disliked; not foods disliked; often number of foods liked;
passionate about food passionate about food often passionate about
food
12. • Mildly sensitive • Moderately • Highly sensitive
taster sensitive taster taster
• This tongue is
• The fungiform • The fungiform covered with
papillae are the papillae on this fungiform
small pinkish dots tongue are larger papillae.
on this tongue and more rounded
than those of a • Note that this
tongue does not
• Note that they are mildly sensitive have any blue
small and seed- taster areas like those in
shaped the other tongues
14. The Geography of Taste
Map shows the prevalence of the ability to taste a prop The darker the area in this map the
higher the percentage of the native population of the area who can taste PTC
Over 85% in the darkest areas, and as low as 5% in the lightest.
15. Taste Smell and Reasoning
• Mildly sensitive tasters tend rely more on logical reasoning
to arrive at decisions than do other tasters
• Moderately sensitive tasters are more likely to "play things
by ear" and improvise
• Highly sensitive tasters tend to spend time mulling things
over, often "sleeping" on a problem if it is complex
• Strong tasters of PROP, and people who sense coolness
when they taste mints, say :
– The crackle of flames of a wood fire stimulate my imagination
– My thoughts often don't occur as words but as visual images
– I like to watch cloud shapes change in the sky
– I can be deeply moved by a sunset.
17. We have to know what we are eating
• We also need to react emotionally
•Do we like it? is it poison? Should we enjoy it or spit it out?
• Flavor messages go to the emotional centers
18. Sensory Dominance
• Many studies published
over the last 75 years have
shown that visual cues
(especially those concerned
with a food or drink’s
colour) can have a profound
effect on both the sensory-
discriminative and hedonic
aspects of multisensory
flavour perception
19. The pleasure of food is critically dependent on
all sensory attributes being right, and so food
can, for instance, shock us simply by serving it
at the wrong temperature, or if it has an
inappropriate colour
20. Factors That Affect Food Perception
• Sight: the visual attributes of the stimulus will likely evoke expectations
• Taste: the tongue, palate, soft palate, and areas in the upper throat detect
sensations
• Smell: the receptors of the olfactory system detect molecules in the air
• Chemesthisis: mediates information about irritants through nerve endings
• Texture: Texture plays a major role in our recognition of foods
• Temperature: we have expectations for the serving temperature for most
foods and beverages
• Hearing: this can set expectations, effect how we experience textures
22. Sensory Incongruity
• The deliberate mismatching of the sensory
attributes of a dish or food product
• Sensory incongruity can elicit negative as well
as positive responses
• Sensory incongruity is more challenging
23. Sensory Incongruity
• There is always a possibility that when the ‘moment of
truth’ comes, and any one (or more) of the other sensory
properties of the product do not match up to the
expectations that have been created by one of the other
senses
• The likely reaction of a diner to such an experience
depends on
– The nature of the sensory incongruity involved
– Whether the incongruity is hidden or visible
– The situation or context in which the incongruity is experienced
– The person who happens to be experiencing it
24. Adaption and Suppression
• Adaptation: When subject to a constant stimulus, the senses become less
responsive
• Mixture Suppression: The phenomenon that individual taste and smell
characteristics are perceived as less intense in mixtures than alone
It is responsible for sensation in the face and certain motor functions such as biting, chewing, and swallowing.
Cornell have been using the flavor of peppermints as a substitute of PROP in measuring taste sensitivity, because peppermint flavor is more pleasant, and measures more aspects of flavor. The response to peppermint involves not only taste (for the sweetness), but also smell, and sensitivity to trigeminal activation (= the cool feeling of mint). Most foods present some combination of these sensations, so we believe that testing with peppermints reflects general flavor sensitivity. When we test with peppermint, we score the intensity of the "rush" of sensation people may get in the back of the throat and the nose as well as the intensity of flavor. This rush of sensation is due to the activation of the trigeminal nerve endings in the taste buds and in the nosesucrose for sweet senstivity, citric acid for sour sensitivity, and of course sodium chloride for salt senstivity.
Cornell have been using the flavor of peppermints as a substitute of PROP in measuring taste sensitivity, because peppermint flavor is more pleasant, and measures more aspects of flavor. The response to peppermint involves not only taste (for the sweetness), but also smell, and sensitivity to trigeminal activation (= the cool feeling of mint). Most foods present some combination of these sensations, so we believe that testing with peppermints reflects general flavor sensitivity. When we test with peppermint, we score the intensity of the "rush" of sensation people may get in the back of the throat and the nose as well as the intensity of flavor. This rush of sensation is due to the activation of the trigeminal nerve endings in the taste buds and in the nosesucrose for sweet senstivity, citric acid for sour sensitivity, and of course sodium chloride for salt senstivity.
Cornell Uni study found that children are more sensitive than their parents ...this may explain why many children are often picky eaters! Here is a graph showing the differences between children ages 3-5 years and their parents in their mean responses to PROP. The vertical scale shows the intensity of the response - the higher the number, the more intense the response.
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taste sensitivities tend to approach decision-making in differing ways, even problems concerning issues that have nothing to do with flavor or food!In other words they become absorbed in and take pleasure from VISUAL experiences. Coupled with this visual absorption and pleasure is a tendency to experience vivid memories.The reason for these differences may come from the fact that taste, smell, and trigeminal sensations all reach the same area on the right side of the brain
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