Accurate taste perception relies on a properly functioning olfactory system
Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 00:28
in Psychology & Sociology
As anyone suffering through a head cold knows, food tastes wrong when the nose is clogged, an experience that leads many to conclude that the sense of taste operates normally only when the olfactory system is also in good working order. Evidence that the taste system influences olfactory perception, however, has been vanishingly rare -- until now.