Mammalian Taste — Zuker Lab
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Mammalian Taste — Zuker Lab
You hear sound, see light, and feel pressure, but inside your brain there isn’t any fundamental difference between these types of information.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
And while smell can be put to complex uses—navigating the open oceans, finding prey, and coordinating herds or colonies—taste is almost always used to make binary decisions about food. Yes or no? Good or bad? Consume or spit?
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Animal studies show that when animals don’t have enough VIP, their blood sugar and insulin levels rise, and the animals crave sweets.22
Dave Asprey • Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
The way the person looks is stored in your visual cortex, the way the person sounds is stored in the auditory part of your brain, the way the person smells is stored in the olfactory part of your brain.
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and savory (umami). Umami literally means “pleasant savory taste” or “deliciousness” in Japanese and owes its mouthwatering quality mostly to glutamate, an amino acid classically found in monosodium glutamate, or MSG.