Multi-Sensory Integration and the Psychophysics of Flavour Perception

Food Oral Processing: Fundamentals of Eating and Sensory Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 203-223

  Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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MULTI-SENSORY;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870673684     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444360943.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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