Sensation and Perception. Lab 3: Olfaction and Taste This is the experiment, I w

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Sensation and Perception. Lab 3: Olfaction and Taste

This is the experiment, I would like to answer question 3.

Instructions: For each of the letter-labeled bottles, take a small portion in you tasting cup. First smell the liquid and try to name the scent. Then taste the liquid and try to guess the flavor. You may want to dry your cup before adding the next sample. 1. Did your perception of the scent always match your perception of the flavor? Describe your experience of the two different tasks and why you think they did or did not match each other? 2. Describe how flavor is a multisensory experience. You should emphasize the chemical senses, but also draw on other senses. What senses are you missing in this taste test and how might that affect things?

3. Drawing on your answer above, describe a new version of this experiment that would help you test the role of at least one more sense in the perception of flavor in the seltzer water.

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3) In the given experiment, the subject needs to first smell the liquid and then taste the liquid in order to try and guess the flavor.

A new version of the experiment that would test one more sense of the subject in the perception of flavor in seltzer water:

The subject could be asked to place his/her palm on the glass in such as way that it covers the top part of the glass consisting the seltzer water.

This would help the subject take in note from the perception of touch, as the carbonated water would be fizzy and the bubbles should be felt by the subject till the brim of the glass.

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