Auditory contributions to flavour perception and feeding behaviour

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-515

  Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feeding; Flavour; Hedonic; Integration; Multisensory; Perception; Sensory discriminative; Sound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLAVOUR PERCEPTION; FOOD; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SOUND; TASTE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84870725832     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.04.022     Document Type: Article

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