Describe the chemical senses and how they differ from other sensory modalities

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ANSWER:
?Smell and taste are called chemical senses because they require that certain chemicals come into direct contact with our sense organs. Vision and hearing don’t require such direct contact; we can perceive visual and auditory stimuli at a distance. But for taste, or gustation, to occur, certain chemicals in foods and other substances must be dis- solved in our saliva and come into direct contact with the sense organ commonly known as the tongue. For smell, chemicals in the nearby air—from food or other substances—must come into contact with cells in the nasal cavity.

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