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  • What nerves carry taste to the brain?

    Facial, glossopharyngeal, vagus

    Numbers 7, 9, 10

  • What structures does taste pass on its path from the mouth to the brain?

    -Gustatory hair on gustatory cell

    -Cranial nerves 7, 9, 10

    -Medulla (reflexes)

    -Thalamus

    -Gustatory cortex in insula

  • How does taste travel to the brain?

    -Chemicals bind to gustatory hair

    -Gustatory cell depolarizes: graded potential > release of neurotransmitters

    -Cranial nerve dendrites propagade action potential

    -Signal travels to gustatory cortex in insula, and limbic system

  • What are the five tastes we can sense?

    Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami