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Adam Casto
 
July 31, 2024 | Adam Casto

Taste: A Somatic Sensation

Taste is fundamentally a somatic sensation, meaning a sense of touch. When we discuss taste, we're essentially referring to the tactile sensations involving pressure, density, and friction within our mouths. For example, when tannins precipitate proteins to the tongue's surface, thereby creating friction and abrasion, this is recognized as astringency.  Continue »

Adam Casto
 
July 24, 2024 | Adam Casto

The Importance of Olfaction: More Than Just a Sense

Smell, or olfaction, is integral to our survival strategy, playing a vital role in identifying prey or predator, ensuring safety in the things we consume, and in the identification of family or stranger. Smell is unique in its neurological processing from other senses, having a more direct pathway from the receptor site (nasal cavity) to the frontal cortex, and by engaging the “limbic system” which integrates emotion with the related senses thereby creating a bidirectional connection between the smell stimuli and our emotional state. Because of this, smells can elicit such complex feelings such as happiness or sadness, a profound power for a seemingly incidental feature.  Continue »

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Adam Casto
 
July 17, 2024 | Adam Casto

We Eat With Our Eyes

The Intricacies of Visual and Olfactory Integration  Continue »

 

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