Sensation and Perception: Chapter 15

There are __________ different types of olfactory receptors in humans.

The ____ pathway conducts signals from the front and sides of the tongue to the brain.

Which of the following tastes do newborns NOT react to?

A fifth basic taste discovered many years after the other four is

__________ is the inability to smell due to injury or infection.

____ tastes cause an autonomic acceptance response and prepares the gastrointestinal tract for these substances.

Dogs are more sensitive to smells than humans because

The central part of the tongue has no taste sensations because that part consists primarily of _______ papillae which do not contain taste buds.

Which of the following compounds had the same flavor whether or not the person’s nose was clamped to prevent olfaction?

The difference between “tasters” and “non-tasters” in the ability to taste PROP is due to:

Eliminating the receptor for bitter tastes results in

Areas on the tongue covered primarily with filiform papillae are similar to ______ in vision.

The tiny bumps on the tongue that contain the taste buds are the

Sodium nitrate results in a taste of

The axons of the olfactory sensory neurons project to the ___________ in the brain.

The axons of the olfactory sensory neurons project to the ___________ in the brain.

In taste research, people are classified as “tasters” or “non-tasters” based on their sensitivity to PTC, which tastes

Octanoic acid and octanol differ in molecular structure by one oxygen molecule. When smelling these substances,

When presented with a common odor like banana or motor oil, participants can identify the odor approximately _____% of the time.

Olfactory signals from the glomeruli project to

The __________ is the structure that contains the receptors for olfaction.

When an eight-hour-old newborn is given a concentrated shrimp odor to smell, the newborn

When using the forced-choice procedure in measuring odor detection thresholds, the experimenter should

In regard to specificity vs. distributed coding , most researchers conclude

The orbital frontal cortex receives input from

Which technique involves injecting an animal with a radioactive molecule to see which part of the olfactory bulb is most activated by different chemicals?

Which technique involves injecting an animal with a radioactive molecule to see which part of the olfactory bulb is most activated by different chemicals?

Finding the neural code for odor molecules

Flavor is the impression a person gets from

The substance amiloride

Evidence for is provided by an Erickson (1963) study in which rats appeared to be unable to discriminate between two different solutions that produce a similar taste.

The _ is most likely involved perceiving overlapping odors, such as “coffee” “French toast” and “bacon.”

A fifth basic taste discovered many years after the other four is

The senses of are referred to as the gatekeepers.

As a monkey’s hunger for cream decreases, the firing of the OFC neuron to the cream’s odor

The _ papillae are mushroom-shaped and found on the tip and sides of the tongue.

“Across-fiber patterns” is another name for

Olfactory transduction occurs at

Olfactory signals from the thalamus project to

Olfactory signals from the thalamus project to

The human sensitivity for the odorant found in natural gas is the odorant for the main substance in nail polish remover.

Which of the following is a correct interpretation when using calcium imaging to measure olfactory receptor response?

In one study, men rated the scent of t-shirts worn by women three nights in a row. The results indicated that

Uchida’s optical imaging research showed that larger carbon chains activate areas on the olfactory bulb that are