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Focus – How We Taste

How We're Wired

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The Science of Taste

Professor Barry Smith explains the science behind how we experience flavour. It's always taste touch and smell, it's not taste with the tongue working by itself. Big revelation was that the senses don't work independently of one another. They're always interacting to influence each other's behaviour. The brain is a predictive machine trying to figure out what will happen next.

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