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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 it already has an idea of the consistency and quality of the chip, so when it doesn't meet the brains expectations, it is thought to be a lower level chip.
Here is the article if you're interested in learning more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/accounting-for-taste
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 it already has an idea of the consistency and quality of the chip, so when it doesn't meet the brains expectations, it is thought to be a lower level chip.
Here is the article if you're interested in learning more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/accounting-for-taste
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