1. Gustation
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2. Smell & Taste
In sea-borne organisms, smell and taste are the same - some reptiles smell with their tongues
Close relationship between smell and taste
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3. Taste
Diet regulation
Last chance to detect a poison prior to ingestion
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4. Anatomy of Taste Papillae Circumvilliate Folliate Filliform Fungiform
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5. Anatomy of Taste Taste Receptors
Taste Buds occur on the soft palate and on some Papillae - Foliate, Circumvallete, Fungiform, Filliform (no taste buds)
About 10,000 taste buds
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6. Taste Anatomy
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7. Taste Anatomy
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8. Central Gustatory Pathway
Taste buds -> Solitary Tract (part of the Medulla) -> Thalamus -> Frontal Lobe
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9. Central Gustatory Pathway
Primary Gustatory Area (insular cortex)
Taste buds -> Solitary Tract (part of the Medulla) -> Thalamus -> Frontal Lobe
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10. Properties of Taste
The dimensions of taste
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11. Properties of Taste Taste preferences for familiar food
Single trial learning - taste aversion
Self-Balancing diet
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