Challenges for the sensory sciences from the food and wine industries

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 599-605

  Simons, Christopher T ^a   Noble, Ann C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONSUMER; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WINE; COGNITION; FOOD INDUSTRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROSCIENCE; ODOR; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASTE;

ANIMALS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FOOD; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WINE;

EID: 0043209360     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1139     Document Type: Article

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