RECEPTION: It begins with a ____ stimulus (food) that is placed on the tongue and mixes with ____, which helps deliver this chemical to the receptors. On the tongue, there are thousands of small bumps called ____. Between the papillae are taste ____ (small openings). Within a papilla are taste ____ which contain clusters of taste ____ (gustatory cells). Taste receptors contain fine gustatory ____ which extend into taste pores and are triggered by chemical tastants. TRANSDUCTION: Taste receptors (or gustatory cells) are specialized sensory receptors that enable chemical transduction by converting the chemical stimulus into a ____ impulse. TRANSMISSION: The ‘taste message’ is sent in the process of transmission via the ____ nerve to the brain. This neural information travels to the ____, then is sent to the ____ and finally the primary ____ cortex in the ____ Lobe.

Taste Sensation

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