Detection of a target taste in a complex masker

Chemical Senses

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 529-534

  Stevens, Joseph C ^a,b   Traverzo, Alexander ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDIMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALT INTAKE; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY;

ADULT; CITRIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; TASTE; WATER;

EID: 0030801781     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/22.5.529     Document Type: Article

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