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Featured Psychology

·November 12, 2015·3 min read

Extreme Noise Conditions Can Influence Taste Perception

A new study reports conditions which are extremely noisy can alter taste perception for sweet and umami flavors.

Diagram of a person drinking wine with the brain exposed.

Featured Neuroscience

·November 10, 2015·3 min read

Charting Flavor’s Favored Flow

A new study reinforces the idea of the central role flavor plays in the human diet.

Featured Psychology

·November 9, 2015·4 min read

Foods That Are More or Less Delicious Than We Expect Can Cause Mood Changes

A new study reports that being pleasantly surprised or disappointed with a certain food product can change a person's mood.

This image shows a woman's lips covered in candies.

Featured Genetics

·July 17, 2015·4 min read

Sweet Genetics: Common Pathway Underlies Sweet Taste Perception

According to a new study, a single set of genes affects a person's perception of sweet tastes.

The image is a tongue is illuminated by two-photon excitation. Tastebuds are blue, amongst the yellow papillae.

Featured Neuroscience

·April 22, 2015·3 min read

Seeing How We Taste

Researchers capture live images of the process of taste sensation on the tongue.

The image shows the outline of a human head and brain in blue.

Featured Neuroscience

·September 22, 2014·4 min read

New Discovery in the Study of the Brain and Memory

Researchers discover a functional link between an area of the brain associated with taste memory and an area associated with encoding the time and place the memory occurred.

The image shows a brain made out of a murel of images.

Featured Psychology

·July 9, 2014·2 min read

Study Cracks How the Brain Processes Emotions

A new study reports on how the brain codes and processes emotions.

This image shows a person eating a sweet, an FMRI brai scan and two outlines of heads. The caption best describes the image.

Featured Psychology

·June 25, 2014·5 min read

Neural Sweet Talk

A new study reports taste related words like 'sweet' or 'bitter' engage emotional centers in the brain more than literal words with the same meaning.

This image shows taste buds on the tongue.

Featured Neuroscience

·June 3, 2014·3 min read

Stress Hormone Receptors Localized in Sweet Taste Cells

Researchers discover receptors for stress activated hormones are localized in oral taste cells responsible for detecting sweet, umami and bitter tastes.