Relationships among taste qualities assessed with response-context effects

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 581-587

  Wise, Paul M ^a   Breslin, Paul A S ^a,b  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gustatory; Psychophysics; Similarity

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; QUININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; AROMA; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE CONTEXT EFFECT; SALTINESS; SMELLING AND TASTE; SOUR TASTE; STIMULUS CONTEXT EFFECT; SWEETNESS; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TASTE PREFERENCE;

EID: 80051756836     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr024     Document Type: Article

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