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Experience-dependent neural integration of taste and smell in the human brain.

Flavor perception arises from the central integration of peripherally distinct sensory inputs (taste, smell, texture, temperature, sight, and even sound of foods). The results from psychophysical and neuroimaging studies in humans are converging with electrophysiological findings in animals and a picture of the neural correlates of flavor processing is beginning to emerge. Here we used event-re...

Potential mechanisms of retronasal odor referral to the mouth.

The current study took a first step toward elucidating the sensory input that drives retronasal odor referral to the mouth. In 2 experiments, subjects performed odor localization tasks under various oral-nasal stimulation conditions that allowed us to assess the effects of direction of airflow, taste, and tactile stimulation on retronasal odor referral. Subjects reported the locations of percei...

Reduced male fertility of the Canton - S strain due to spermiogenic failure

Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste and appearance. The ways of food additives classification, source of nature, food coloring, flavors, taste, which were collected from literature based on structural and biochemical characteristics with description of source and possible effects on Drosophila organisms, have been presented. The study reveals sign...

Rapid Detection of Vanilla Bean Extract Adulteration with Tonka Bean Extract with No Chromatography or Sample Preparation

The production of vanilla beans is quite expensive, since it is a very labor intensive process and harvesting takes place two to three years after planting. Due to this, the price of natural vanilla bean extract is quite expensive. It is quite often adulterated with cheaper tonka bean extract, which smells and tastes like vanilla bean extract due to the presence of a compound called coumarin1. ...

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