2006-09-23 12:52:58 · 16 answers · asked by I-C-U 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
It is a Pavlovian response (like Pavlov's dogs that salivated when they heard the bell that had been associated with food during conditioning). He won a Nobel Prize for that.
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2006-09-23 12:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our brain (the organ) cannot tell the difference between an imagined event (in the mind) and the "real" one.
The chemical changes in the body when we get angry or turned on by someone who is nowhere around are the same process at work.
There is currently some very intriguing research involving brain scans of Tibetan Buddhist monks while they are meditating.
Hmmmmm.
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2006-09-23 20:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by WikiJo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a kind of a reflex. Like if you hold a sheet of Plexiglass in fromt of you, and someone throws a ball at it, you flinch, even though you know that you are protected. Reptilian brain and all that. So at first you don't know the difference between the image of food and real food.
2006-09-23 20:30:41 · answer #3 · answered by lone_battosai 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a brain trigger function, your mouth begins to produce saliva to help digest food, it starts the second it gets the message from the brain that a certain food is pleasing and palatable.
2006-09-23 19:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by odafintutuola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It'sthe whole pavlov's dog thing, when we think about good food we are trained to salivate.
2006-09-23 19:56:21 · answer #5 · answered by eric g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go look up "Palovs Dogs" and how the ringing of a bell made them salavite.
Positive Re-enforcement= prepairation of something good mentally
2006-09-23 19:55:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
just like Pavlov's dogs, our bodies are trained to respond certain ways to certain "triggers". talking about tasty foods could be one of thes triggers for many people.
2006-09-23 23:51:51 · answer #7 · answered by wunluv06 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mind makes you hungry, when you are hungry you are usually bound to salivate. Its as simple as that! I like your avater, it looks like Billy Idol, Billy Idol rules! Glad I could be of assistance!
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2006-09-23 19:56:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the brain is trigger by that tasty foods you hear and start to operate your system, same when you think of horrible things and
start to operate your system to have fear.
2006-09-23 20:03:52 · answer #9 · answered by ron lynn m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason you have the abillity to daydream.
Your mind thinks of how good it tastes and it gets you body prepared to eat it.
2006-09-23 19:54:38 · answer #10 · answered by special-chemical-x 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋