Taste: Vertebrate Psychophysics

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 881-886

  Duffy, V B ^a   Hayes, J E ^b   Bartoshuk, L M ^c   Snyder, D J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Aging; Food; Genetics; Individual differences; Nutrition; Pathology; Perception; Scaling; Sensation; Sex hormones; Taste qualities; Tongue map

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952951034     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01674-0     Document Type: Chapter

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