Taste, Smell & Multisensory
📋 What it is
Senses influence each other — colour changes how food tastes, and sight can override hearing.
🗣️ Coach says
Your senses team up, and can fool each other. Food dyed the "wrong" colour tastes strange; smell is most of what we call "taste"; and seeing a mouth move can literally change the sound you hear (the McGurk effect). Your brain BLENDS all senses into one experience — so tricking one can trick the whole.
🧠 Memory hook
Senses blend + influence each other: colour changes taste, smell IS most of taste, sight can override sound.
😂 Giggle
Why don't your eyes ever argue with your brain?
Because your brain always has the final say in perception!
😲 Whoa!
Most of "taste" is actually SMELL — pinch your nose and even a jelly bean loses most of its flavour, becoming just sweet.
✅ Quick check: Why does food seem to lose its flavour when you have a blocked nose?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Most of "taste" is actually smell — with your nose blocked, you lose the aromas that give food its flavour.
Flavour is mostly smell; blocking it flattens taste.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Pinch your nose and eat a strong-flavoured sweet — notice how much flavour vanishes without smell.