Providing information about a flavor to preschoolers: Effects on liking and memory for having tasted it

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 505-513

  Lumeng, Julie C ^a   Cardinal, Tiffany M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Food preferences; Memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAVOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECALL; RECOGNITION; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; TASTE;

EID: 34547920283     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm019     Document Type: Article

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