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The original research on taste aversion was conducted by Garcia. It is primarily (in humans) used to explain why patients receiving chemotherapy become averse to eating the foods they eat shortly after receiving a treatment. The belief is that because the radiation makes the patient sick they associate the feeling with the food rather than the hospital (presumably) where they receive treatment. The theory goes that the brain can more easily associate taste and sickness than location and sickness. Evolutionarily, this makes sense because you are more likely to get sick from bad food than being in a certain place. This association can be made for some time after the irradiation takes place, up to around 24 hours if memory serves. A common treatment is to give the patient a bitter tasting liquid after the chemo session. The patient then associates this bitter taste with the treatment rather than the meal he or she eats afterwards.
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Is gritty a taste or a smell?
Taste
Which is more useful smell or taste?
Probably smell, since taste can be fooled by smell. Think about it... have you had a cold, and eaten something, and couldn't taste it, because your nose was stuffed up?
What does chemoreceptors play a role in the sense of?
Smell and Taste are the two senses that depend on chemoreceptors
Why can't a person smell or taste after a brain injury and if they do they just smell and taste smoke or have a taste like metal?
A person who can't smell has got a defect called ANOSMIA,so that person is said to be ANOSMIC..
Can sense of taste and smell be restored?
It depends how you lost your sense of taste and smell. Some people are born with poor taste and smell. Allergies, cold or a virus can be a problem, but once it's cleared up then you're smell and taste should return. Head injuries that involve that part of brain are permanent. Some medications can cause this. People going through Chemo or radiation can have poor taste and smell and SOME elderly will experience a loss of taste and smell (thus poor eating habits can occur or no desire to eat.)
You and your date go to a new barbecue restaurant You get severe food poisoning and are very sick to your stomach All you can smell and taste is barbecue sauce After this you can no longer think a?
taste aversion
What is conditioned taste aversion?
biological preparedness
What is the form of classical conditioning in which a food come to be avoided is?
The form of classical conditioning in which a food that was once liked becomes avoided is known as taste aversion or food aversion. This occurs when an individual associates a particular food with feeling ill, leading to a conditioned response of avoiding that food in the future.
What foods are associated with taste aversion?
Taste aversion is a conditioned response, which happens when a person associates a certain food with an illness or unpleasant experience; an example would be someone who can't eat apples, because they developed stomache flu shortly after eating one. The illness had nothing to do with the apple, but the person associates the two psychologically. Taste aversion can happen with any food.
What is the smell of oxygen?
oxygen it has no colour, taste or smell.
Does diamond have a smell or taste?
Diamonds are formed from carbon, and in this state, possess no taste or smell.
What is smell and taste mean?
Smell and taste are 2 of the 5 senses we humans have: smell, taste, hear, sight, and feel. Guess what? You use your nose to smell and tongue to taste. Surprise, surprise.
Does taste or smell develop first in a baby?
I guess smell. What is there to taste?
Is taste really smell?
No, taste and smell are very related though
Which is the most important characteristic of a food that is linked to a conditioned taste aversion for birds?
vision
Is gritty a taste or a smell?
Taste
Does a pure vodka have a taste or smell?
Just the smell and taste of ethanol itself.
