Neuroenology: how the brain creates the taste of wine

Flavour

Gordon M Shepherd¹ 

[1] Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven 0651, CT, USA

关键词: Fluid mechanics;    Wine perceptual object;    Wine image;    Retronasal smell;    Wine;   

Others  :  1150990
DOI  :  10.1186/s13411-014-0030-9

 received in 2014-12-19, accepted in 2014-12-30,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Flavour science is concerned with the sensory appreciation of food. However, flavor is not in the food; it is created by the brain, through multiple sensory, motor, and central behavioral systems. We call this new multidisciplinary field “neurogastronomy.” It is proving useful in integrating research findings in the brain with the biomechanics of generating food volatiles and their transport through retronasal smell. Recent findings in laboratory animals and in humans give new insights into the adaptations that have occurred during evolution that give humans an enhanced flavor perception. This process will be illustrated by an analysis of how the brain creates the taste of wine. The successive stages of the biomechanics of movement of the ingested wine and transport of the released volatiles will be correlated with activation of the multiple brain mechanisms, apparently engaging more of the brain than any other human behavior. These stages include the initial cephalic phase, visual analysis, ingestion, formation of the wine perceptual image, formation of the wine perceptual object, swallowing, and post-ingestive effects. This combined biomechanic and brain mechanism approach suggests a new discipline of “neuroenology (neuro-oenology),” adding to the contributions that science can make to the enhanced quality and appreciation of wine.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Shepherd; licensee BioMed Central.

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