When was neurogastronomy born? According to Gordon M. Shepherd, American professor specialized in Neurobiology at Yale University, "When humans ingest a food or drink, the taste they perceive is determined by smell and taste". And from this theory was born this neologism, which studies the way in which our brain perceives the taste of what we eat (food or drink), and how our senses act in response to these stimuli. Sense memory Shepherd was not wrong, however it has been scientifically proven that not only smell and taste act at the time of eating or drinking, but the five senses act synergistically and send...