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Taste

Categories: Sensory system | Olfaction | Flavors | Gustatory system | Tongue
Palatability
Filiform papilla
Tongue
Taste-map myth
Sweetness
Olfaction (sense)
Optimal foraging theory
Odor
Olfactory fatigue
Olfactory system
Nose

Disorders of Olfaction

ageusia (complete loss of taste)
dysgeusia (persistent abnormal taste)

• Umami: Why the Fifth Taste Is So Important -- Guardian (09 April 2013)
  
  
• Taste: 5 Future Technology Innovations from IBM
  
  
• Science on the Silk Road: Taste for Adventure -- Nature (15 August 2012)
• podcast
  
  
• Scientists Find Fat Is the Sixth Human Taste -- Telegraph (15 January 2012)
  
  
• Tip of the Tongue: Humans May Taste at Least 6 Flavors -- Live Science (30 December 2011)
  
  
• ‘Taste terminator’ protein may explain distorted bitter tastes -- FOODnavigator.com (03 August 2011)

• Linda Bartoshuk -- Inside the Psychologist's Studio Videos, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
  
  
• Korsmeyer, Carolyn (Ed.). The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink. Bloomsbury/Berg, 2005.
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul. Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2004.
  
  
• Olfaction -- John C. Leffingwell
  
  
• The Science of Picky Eaters -- NOVA scienceNOW (21 July 2009)
  • Picky Eaters: Expert Q&A
  • Tour the Tongue
  • Blocking Bitter Taste
    
    
• "Variation in sensation and affect: We live in 'different taste worlds'" -- Linda Bartoshuk
  Fifth Lecture of the Nobel Conference 46 Making Food Good Conference -- Gustavus Adolphus College (5-6 October 2010) (archives are available online at <http://gustavus.edu/events/nobelconference/2010/archive.php>)
  
  
  • view video on-line