Methods for assessing taste abilities and hedonic responses in human and nonhuman primates

Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 87-99

  Simmen, Bruno ^a   Pasquet, Patrick ^b   Hladik, Claude Marcel ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

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