Grape expectations: The role of cognitive influences in color-flavor interactions

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 380-390

  Shankar, Maya U ^a   Levitan, Carmel A ^a   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive influences; Color perception; Color flavor interactions; Expectations; Flavor perception; Multisensory perception

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REVIEW; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TASTE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEVERAGES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DRINKING; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; SMELL; TASTE;

EID: 77649233340     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.08.008     Document Type: Review

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