Uploaded September 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We tend to think about our senses individually — how a tree looks, a flower smells, or an apple tastes. But our brains often combine information from different senses in what’s called multisensory perception. Here, simple experiments you can try at home show how, by tricking our senses, smell and vision can change how we perceive taste.
This is a video from the 2022 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
Created by Nicolette Frazer
We tend to think about our senses individually — how a tree looks, a flower smells, or an apple tastes. But our brains often combine information from different senses in what’s called multisensory perception. Here, simple experiments you can try at home show how, by tricking our senses, smell and vision can change how we perceive taste.
This is a video from the 2022 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
Created by Nicolette Frazer
