The Psychology For one who appreciates qualitative as well as quantitative information, the mental and emotional aspects seem to dominate this side of the argument. Until it is plugged into the measurable, scientifically recordable, biology of cutting the frog open as a metaphorical way of understanding the perception of taste, one might think of Plato’s Cave for ideas of taste perception. “Such prisoners would mistake appearance for reality,” gives us an idea of how anyone could mistake the way they perceive taste just as it was exhibited with the pricey wine label and body odor smell tests (The allegory of, 2015, para. 4). Looking at it from the microscopic physiological world of the human being and the measurable brain activity that lit
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Turkey today tastes as good as it does on Thanksgiving for example. Just the color of a plate or cup can make food taste differently (Gil et al., 2009). This shows why Turkey tastes better considering, and may contribute to why being full is related to the holiday. Science is gaining ground on how taste includes information from the other senses and emotions (Briggs, 2013). Just from the information gathered here it becomes easier to see that this is true. This one sense is responsible for so many missed opportunities that one wonders how the senses work alone or together at …show more content…
Darwin said that disgust is an evolutionary protection mechanism (Gil et al., 2009). One can imagine food tasting better on a clean plate, but how could the color of a plate make food taste better? The fruit being ripe or the meat being spoiled, even before the smell is encountered, can bring images of how color could influence taste. This, per Darwin and conscious thought shows how color can protect humans, even though it can fool them. One would want to know what is safe to eat. What one has ingested will influence what they will ingest next. Water tastes differently after eating some foods than others as shown in tests (Briggs, 2013). If one ate something sweet the water after tasted sweet, and if they ate something else the water did not taste sweet. This was the finding. Taste is coming out as not being as predictable as it seems and one can wonder of the implications. How can taste being so easily influenced be a good thing when there is an obesity problem? One might say that the satiety of life being easier today could account for the
Turkey today tastes as good as it does on Thanksgiving for example. Just the color of a plate or cup can make food taste differently (Gil et al., 2009). This shows why Turkey tastes better considering, and may contribute to why being full is related to the holiday. Science is gaining ground on how taste includes information from the other senses and emotions (Briggs, 2013). Just from the information gathered here it becomes easier to see that this is true. This one sense is responsible for so many missed opportunities that one wonders how the senses work alone or together at …show more content…
Darwin said that disgust is an evolutionary protection mechanism (Gil et al., 2009). One can imagine food tasting better on a clean plate, but how could the color of a plate make food taste better? The fruit being ripe or the meat being spoiled, even before the smell is encountered, can bring images of how color could influence taste. This, per Darwin and conscious thought shows how color can protect humans, even though it can fool them. One would want to know what is safe to eat. What one has ingested will influence what they will ingest next. Water tastes differently after eating some foods than others as shown in tests (Briggs, 2013). If one ate something sweet the water after tasted sweet, and if they ate something else the water did not taste sweet. This was the finding. Taste is coming out as not being as predictable as it seems and one can wonder of the implications. How can taste being so easily influenced be a good thing when there is an obesity problem? One might say that the satiety of life being easier today could account for the