A spook house in a local carnival offered its potential patrons free admission if they would allow themselves to be blindfolded and then to eat raw worms.Although they were actually fed cold spaghetti,most of the customers believed they were swallowing real worms.What is the MOST plausible explanation for this finding?
A)The cold spaghetti dulled nerve endings in the taste buds.
B)This particular food failed to depolarize adjacent neurons in the tongue.
C)Food flavor is really a composite of taste,smell,sight,and texture.
D)Sensory receptors in the brain were not activated.

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Food flavor is a composite of taste, smell, sight, and texture. In this case, the sight of the worms along with the texture of the cold spaghetti likely tricked the brain into perceiving it as the taste of actual worms.

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