Taste perception with age: Generic or specific losses in supra-threshold intensities of five taste qualities?

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-413

  Mojet, Jos ^a,b   Heidema, Johannes ^b   Christ Hazelhof, Elly ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intensity matching; Perceptual context; Psychophysical slopes; Taste specificity

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ASPARTAME; CAFFEINE; CITRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; INOSINE PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; WATER;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STIMULATION; TASTE;

CINCHONA PUBESCENS;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; SOLUTIONS; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD; WATER;

EID: 1542752338     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.5.397     Document Type: Article

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