Leonora+L14

Leonora L. 2013-2014
 * HOW STRONG IS A PERSON’S SMELL **

The purpose of this study was to determine how important smell is to taste, and whether smell can overpower the tongue in determining taste. The senses of smell and taste are very complicated senses that use and need many different systems and components of the human body, such as the brain which helps people remember a taste or smell. To test this, volunteers were blindfolded and asked to taste unflavored Jell-O while smelling a variety of other flavors to see if the smells distracted the volunteer’s taste. It was found that the different smells did distract the volunteer’s taste. This is because the tongue can only find sensations of taste such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, and the sense of smell finds everything else about taste.
 * ABSTRACT **

An improvement that could be made to this is experiment could be to make more exact measurements of how far the bottle or index card (with the smell) was from the nose. Another improvement could be to test to make sure the blindfolds worked. Both improvemesnts could ensure that each result was fair. It would be interesting to do a follow up experiment with different ages, or with people who had colds.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS **

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