Electrical taste thresholds established on the medial tongue using two sizes of electrodes

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1509-1511

  Nicolaescu, Serban A ^a   Wertheimer, Jaclyn M ^a   Barbash, Scott E ^b   Doty, Richard L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical assessment; Electrogustometry; Gustation; Taste; Taste psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; TONGUE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TASTE BUDS; TASTE THRESHOLD;

EID: 23344448982     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000172206.18433.c5     Document Type: Article

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