Sweet taste enhancement through pulsatile stimulation depends on pulsation period not on conscious pulse perception

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 327-331

  Burseg, Kerstin Martha Mensien ^a,b   Brattinga, Celine ^a,b   de Kok, Petrus Maria Theresia ^a,b   Bult, Johannes Hendrikus Franciscus ^a,b  

^a TOP INSTITUTE FOOD AND NUTRITION   (Netherlands)

^b NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gustometer; Pulsed taste stimulation; Taste contrast; Taste fusion point

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ADULT; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PULSATILE FLOW; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STIMULATION; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; PULSATILE FLOW; SOLUTIONS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE; TASTE PERCEPTION; TASTE THRESHOLD; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952954671     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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