Multisensory Perception

The perception of flavor is the most multisensory experience in our everyday life. It's easy enough to think of flavor as the combination of taste and odor, but a number of other sensations from the sound the food makes, to the temperature of the food to the look of the food and finally the feel of the food come together to create the sensation of flavor. With a growing number of "foodie" movements people are starting to pay more attention to flavor. Today I sit down with Izzy Frosch to talk about flavor and the brain.

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Food on the Mind

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SD Taste

SD Taste is the latest in neuroscience based restaurant experiences. You've heard of dark tasting restaurants where you eat in the dark with the expectation that your other senses will be heightened. But we ask, why would you want to take away one of the important senses in a multisensory experience. At our restaurant we only deprive you of senses that at not involved in taste which as it turns out isn't that many. So come down to SD Taste, its SD for Sensory Deprivation, not Standard Definition, because at SD Taste all flavors are in High Definition with Sensory Deprivation.

Disclaimer: This is a work of satire. In the tradition of A Prairie Home Companion, this ad, among others, will form the backbone of the underwriting and sponsorship of my podcast.

Color Perception

Last year, the dress that blew up the internet was a shining moment for vision researchers and others who study color perception. Finally, the general public was asking, "Why do I see colors differently from my friends" and the scientists were more than happy to oblige them. Today, Claudia Amaral and I speak about color perception, its similarities and differences across individual people and cultures.

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Around the one year anniversary of the dress, a new phenomenon started to sweep the internet, with "The Jacket." We also disscuss the BBC documentary, Do you See What I See, from the BBC. You can test your color perception for color blindness here and color hue test here.

6 Things You Didn't Know About Color Perception

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