Sense organ, of taste, 60 ff., 75 development of, 116, 129 Senses, higher and lower, 168 ff. æsthetic value of, 168 ff. of lower animals, 132 ff. development of, 132 Sensitiveness, of taste, 43, 53, 99 Sensitiveness, of tongue, 21, 99 measures of, 43 varieties of, 44 of taste and smell, 46 of the cell, 130 Sham feeding, 162 _Sheldon_, 138 Smell, sense organ of, 11 self-sacrificing character of, 14 loss of, 15 function of, 17 names for, 24 sensitiveness of, 46 adaptation to, 49 Social character, of senses, 187 Sour, 5, 20, 21, 22, 31, 36, 40, 45, 57 Spatial attributes, 181 Specific energy, of taste nerves, 115 _Stahr_, 117 _Sternberg_, 96, 112 Stimulus, meaning of, 3 adaptation to, 48, 51 adequate and inadequate, 92 for taste, 92 ff., 111 Subjective tastes, 149 Sugar of lead, 5 _Sulzer_, 100 Sweet, 5, 7, 20, 21, 31, 36, 40, 45, 57 Taste, acquirement of, 50 adaptation to, 49 æsthetic value of, 168 agreeableness of, 7, 24, 50, 158 biological rôle of, 158 blends of, 9, 18, 28 classification of, 3 ff. contrasts of, 37 development of, 49, 116, 128 ff., 184 disorders of, 123 ff. distribution of, 21, 73, 75, 123 in lower animals, 128 ff. names for, 23 organ of, 60 organization of, 27 ff. poverty of, 14 qualities of, 1 sensitiveness of, 43, 53 stimulus for, 92 ff., 105 Taste buds, characteristics of, 78 structure of, 79, 82 function of, 107, 114 Temperature, effect of, 58, 99 _Thorndike_, 188 Threshold, of taste sensation, 44 Time, relations, 55 of reaction, 57 Tongue, as sense organ, 9, 21, 61, 120 structure of, 65 movements of, 67, 103, 105 function of, 103 Touch, sense of, 9, 12, 19 _Valentin_, 45 Vegetables, taste of, 16 Vocabulary, of taste, 23 _Volta_, 101 Water, taste of, 150 _Woodworth_, 18, 41 _Wundt_, 8, 41, 142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Sense of Taste, by H. L. Hollingworth and A. T. Poffenberger