The pleasure of eating begins in the mouth, albeit extends far beyond it. The sensation that we know as taste involves an intricate system of nerves that relay information from the tongue’s taste buds ...

The gustatory system enables animals to detect and discriminate among foods, to select nutritious diets, and to initiate, sustain and terminate ingestion for the purpose of maintaining energy balance.

The perception of taste is not merely a matter of detecting a chemical stimulus; it involves a sophisticated network of neural circuits that integrate sensory inputs from taste receptors, olfactory ...

Gina Mullin always kept chocolate in her desk drawer for an afternoon pick-me-up, but a few years ago, in between rounds of chemotherapy, the Hershey's kisses stopped tasting quite right. "I couldn't ...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) get hungry? Develop a taste for certain foods? Not yet, but a team of researchers is developing a novel electronic tongue that mimics how taste influences what we eat ...

The paper K. Chen et al., “Spatially distributed representation of taste quality in the gustatory insular cortex of behaving mice,” Curr Biol, 31:247–256.e4, 2020. Sensory information is often mapped ...

A report shared by TechXplore tells us that this new frontier in AI, called "gustatory emotional intelligence," aims to bridge the gap between our physical needs and psychological desires, potentially ...

Gustatory rhinitis is the medical term for a runny nose or sneezing you may get after you eat hot or spicy foods. It's a type of nonallergic rhinitis, where your nose gets inflammation but not because ...

The human body is full of marvels, some even bordering on miraculous. That includes the limited ability for nerves to regenerate after injuries, allowing people to regain some function and feeling.