Measures of individual differences in taste and creaminess perception

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 493-501

  Lim, Juyun ^a,b,c   Urban, Lenka ^a   Green, Barry G ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central neural process; Individual differences; PROP; Taste sensitivity; Test retest reliability

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAIRY PRODUCT; FAT CONTENT; FEMALE; FLAVOR; FOLLOW UP; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULATION; TASTE;

ADULT; DAIRY PRODUCTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TASTE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 48249123411     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn016     Document Type: Article

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