How We Perceive Flavors

  Studies almost always analyze what your mind does when you see something or when you listen, but they tend to forget what happens when you taste something. For instance, what happens at the exact moment you bite into a piece of fruit or a delicious dessert? As a matter of fact, there’s a process at play here known as multisensory perception. This means that more than one sense is involved in a particular sensation. For example, it’s known that people wearing glasses tend to hear better, even though the two senses seem to be unrelated. Sight plays a part in…