PSYC 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Endocrine Disease, Multisensory Integration, Thalamus
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Emotional state: (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:449)e"re sad or a(cid:374)(cid:454)ious, food tastes less good - comfort foods - input from amygdala. Past experiences: foods that have sickened us taste less good, new/strange foods taste less good than familiar ones - input from hippocampus. Hunger: when we are hungry things taste better - input from lateral hypothalamus. Other sensory inputs: flavor is the multisensory integratio(cid:374) of taste, s(cid:373)ell, (cid:862)(cid:373)outh feel(cid:863), (cid:272)olor, a(cid:374)d other se(cid:374)sor(cid:455) i(cid:374)puts a(cid:374)d is pro(cid:272)essed i(cid:374) the orbitofrontal cortex, which also integrates flavor with reward pathways. There is a difference between taste and flavor. Supertaster: bitter things like coffee and red wine and leafy green vegetables are really strong and unpleasant to me. Nontaster: (cid:272)offee a(cid:374)d red (cid:449)i(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d leaf(cid:455) gree(cid:374) (cid:448)egeta(cid:271)les do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)other (cid:373)e at all and are actually quite enjoyable to me. Regular taster: bitter things like coffee and red wine and leafy green vegetables and neither strongly pleasant not unpleasant to me.
