Sensing Episode 3: Flavor on the Brain

When you taste the subtle flavor of a perfectly brewed cup of coffee, or smell the funk of an aged blue cheese – you don’t just experience those flavors with your taste buds and nose, you experience them with your brain! Neuroscience PhD Jess Kanwal says that our brain’s ability to combine taste and smell is just one example of how our brains are able to mix and match senses – with very interesting results. Full Transcript The Veritalk Team: Host/Producer: Anna Fisher-Pinkert Sound Designer: Ian Coss Logo: Emily Crowell Executive Producer: Ann Hall Special thanks to Jess Kanwal and the PRX Podcast Garage. Jess Kanwal’s research is funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award, and a National Institutes of Health F31 Grant.

You can listen to Sensing Episode 3: Flavor on the Brain online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Sensing Episode 3: Flavor on the Brain is an episode from Veritalk by Harvard University.

This episode is 00:18:59 long.

This episode was published on Dec 16, 2019.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Veritalk when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.