So when we say 'the first taste is with the eyes' it has a scientific basis."
The interesting part is, even just viewing that food activates the taste area, so the insula, that is the primary gustatory cortex, is activated. "Everything happens visually, so you don’t have to eat it. "One hundred milliseconds after you see a picture of food or a non-food, the brain responds in a different way," Coricelli explained in a video interview this week. "When we say 'the first taste is with the eyes' it has a scientific basis."Ĭoricelli explained that recognizing food is an intensely visual process. So I called her up to help explain why I wanted to eat the dangerous glass. Glass is objectively not food, but her expertise lends some insight as to why the human brain might interpret molten glass as a forbidden snack. For her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience she researched food recognition, using neural imaging techniques to examine what happens when people look at something they perceive as food. The desire to touch the hot glass (do not), lick the finished glass (do not), or otherwise consume it (you will die) is strong for some people and nonexistent in others - but why does that desire exist at all?Ĭarol Coricelli is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy. That focus on the material captures the danger of working with a substance heated to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit it also makes the glass look absolutely delicious.Įmpirically, seeing a metal ladle of anything hot enough to burn a hole in a human body shouldn't inspire hunger, but something about watching a syrup of melty goodness become candy-colored sculpture is irresistible. The competition show for glassblowers has quirky competitors, fun guest judges, oodles of glasswork sex puns (drink every time someone says "glory hole"), and of course, the visual thrill of seeing simple glass turned into stunning works of art.īlown Away's editing relies on slow-motion shots of artists stretching ropes of shiny, glowing glass between their tools and close ups of hands manipulating technicolor goo into fantastic shapes. There's a lot to enjoy in every episode of Netflix's Blown Away (opens in a new tab).
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