Receptors for smell (olfaction) and taste (Gustation) are
Chemoreceptors
Why chemoceptors?
Because they respond to chemicals
What happens to smell receptors
Get excited by airborne chemicals that dissolve in fluids coating the olfactory epithelium of nasal mucosa
Groups of unmyelinated axons of the olfactory receptor cells form fascicles that project through the olfactory foramina in cribiform plate
Fila olfactoria aka CN1
Second order neuron in olfaction
Mitral cell