Hedonics of taste

Abstract

In our daily lives, we feel pleasure when we eat and/or drink something palatable. During eating and drinking, we experience the sense of taste. The thought that the sense of taste is emerged in our oral cavity, especially in our tongue, is not true. The sense of taste is highly multimodal perception, and is based on the integration of gustation, olfaction and somatosenses in oral cavity. The sense of taste is also affected by the cognition and the attention. This article focuses good sides of ‘the sense of taste’ as a theme to study organisms' basic psychological mechanisms.