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    The document discusses smell and taste and the nature vs nurture debate around these senses. It explores how we taste using taste buds located on papillae on our tongue. It also examines whether preferences for certain smells or tastes, like pizza, could be biologically based or influenced by environmental factors through discussions of gender differences in odor detection and the role of pheromones.

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    Chapter 4 Smell & Taste

    Was I born to love pizza?

    What is the bigger question here? Nature versus Nurture

    Why do we study smell and taste together? SENSORY INTERACTION: the principle that one sense may influence another.

    Was I born to love pizza?

    Lets take a look at the Nature perspective first.

    How do we taste?
    Taste (and smell) are chemical senses.

    What is the central muscle involved in taste?

    Papillae
    Those bumps on our tongue are called Papillae. Papillae help grip food while your teeth are chewing. They also have another special job - they contain your taste buds

    PTC Strips

    But what about smell?


    Can our sense of smell be biologically based?

    Gender related odors


    Can you smell the difference?

    So can we smell the difference?

    Well.yes and no.

    Pheromones
    Chemical messengers that are picked up through our sense of smell. Founded in the early 1930s by studying silkworms. Jury is still out on whether they exist in humans. Best evidence we have comes out of the university of Chicago.

    Does nurture play a role?

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