PSY280H5 Lecture 9: PSY280 Lecture 9 Notes.docx
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The role of taste: quinine one of the most bitter tastes on earth, babies express displeasure and some vomit, even some infants with anencephaly they still retain the ability to taste and express emotional displays of different qualities of taste this tells us it is an evolutionary old perceptual trait that doesn"t require cortical maturation, we look for features of food to find pleasure, primary: sweet, bitter, salty, sour, we can also perceive taste in other ways, taste perception is the taste of umami the taste of protein (amino acids, fat is not a taste, but a texture we enjoy, hot (spicy) is painful, some like it some don"t, nutrient vs. anti nutrients, either helps you to seek something out or avoid it, anti nutrients include bitter/sour they are potentially harmful, nutrient taste systems help us seek out things that are good for us and include sweet/salty.
