Contrast and range effects for category, magnitude and labeled magnitude scales in judgements of sweetness intensity

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-92

  Lawless, Harry T ^a   Horne, John ^a   Spiers, Ward ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; FRUIT JUICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; SENSATION; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033953323     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.85     Document Type: Article

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