https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu Hans Wassermann, Shekhar Shah, Noah Wang, Bryson A-W en-us 2019-06-05 18:05:31 UTC 2024-11-08 20:08:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 23ss06091 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927088 Does the sense of smell affect the sense of taste?

]]> 2019-06-05 18:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927088 23ss06091 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927349 Without much prior knowledge as to how the senses worked, both independently and cooperatively, we wanted to find out if we impacted one of the sense, how the other ones would react. Already impacting one of the sense (eyesight), as we didn't want our subjects to be able to see the different colors and correlate them to the different flavors of the jelly bean. We figured that hearing and touch wouldn't impact the way that our subject tasted the different jellybeans. So with already using the mouth as the way that they were going to test the different jelly beans, we decided to pinch the nose so that we would be able to see if the difference, if there was one at all, impacted how accurate they were in guessing the different flavors.]]> 2019-06-05 18:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927349 23nw07381 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927478 After testing 20 participants, 15 (75%) were able to taste more accurately with their nose open. (See bar graph for data)]]> 2019-06-05 18:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927478 23ss06091 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927808 If your nose is blocked, then your sense of taste is dulled, because smell and taste work together.]]> 2019-06-05 18:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927808 23ba00141 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927915 In our experiment, we used six different flavors of jelly beans: cherry, orange, strawberry, lemon, green apple, and grape. First we gave a single participant a random jelly bean and asked them to pick one of the six flavor we told them. They repeated this 5 times, while washing their mouth out in between. After that, they ate 5 more jelly beans but this time they had their nose pinched. But still rinsing their mouth out in between. Throughout this entire experiment we recorded whether they guessed the correctly, and overall their accuracy of correctness with their nose open and with their nose closed.]]> 2019-06-05 18:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365927915 23nw07381 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365933582 2019-06-05 18:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/365933582 23ba00141 https://padlet.com/23hw07431/z679fo0zl3nu/wish/366112044 As seen in the bar graph the accuracy level among the participants was much higher when their nose wasn't pinched, than when their nose was pinched. To be specific when there nose wasn't pinched they were able to accurately guess 51% of the jelly beans tasted. While with their nose pinched they were only able to accurately guess 19% of the tasted jelly beans. Proving it is a lot easier to taste with your nose open rather than pinched.

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