NathanA2019's Psychology Blog

Hey guys I'm back! While surfing the internet I encountered an article that stated your sense of sound actually affected the way that the food may taste.  This really caught my eye, how could sound possibly be related to the way your tongue perceives the food to be.  Professor Charles Spence at the university of Oxford was pondering why the pringle he was eating seemed to be less tasty then the previous one he had just eaten. it wasn't the salt or the was cooked, it was something that he hadn't yet wrapped his mind around.  It finally came to his head that maybe the other senses were altering his sense of taste.  When he got back to the lab he conducted an experiment where the subjects would eat pringles with a headset on.  Spence would increase and decrease the sound of the crunch which would seem to alter the test subjects opinion on the taste of the chip.  The professor finally came to the conclusion that the human brain is expecting a crunch because i...

Hey guys welcome back! This week I will be sharing with you all the milestones of my past, and my hopes and predications of the future. I was born in Frankfort, Kentucky where I spent almost three years of my life thriving as a child.  I always had an optimistic attitude towards life, although I had been diagnosed with severe eczema.  Every night I would have socks on my hands and feet to prevent myself from tearing my skin up.  This eventually faded away as I got older which was a huge feat.  At the astounding age of one I had spoken my first word "ball" and continued to form sentences from there.  However, I started walking late, around the time I was sixteen months.  my family then moved down to Amarillo where I was put into a catholic school to start elementary. Eventually we made our way to Houston, Texas because of my dads job.  I then went to cornerstone elementary and proceeded to go to Sartartia middle school.  Soon after that I made th...