Smell

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Smell Taste

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SMELL RECEPTORS

• Located in top of nasal cavity live 1 month
• Hairs in cavity axons to the brain
• QUICK adaptation
• 50 in first second slowly thereafter

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Whats that smell?

• Brain can analyze over 300 odor molecules
• We can recognize 10,000 different odors
• We can only detect an odor in liquid form

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Taste

• 4 options sour, sweet, bitter, salty
• Debatable 5th umami
• Taste buds receptors with hairs to stimulate
  neurons

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Taste Preferences

• Much of taste is actually smell
• More is the interpretation of the stimuli
• So can we LEARN to like brussel sprouts?