Reduced Taste Sensitivity in Congenital Blindness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 509-517

  Gagnon, Lea ^a,b   Kupers, Ron ^b   Ptito, Maurice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Food neophobia; Intuitive eating; Multisensory integration; Plasticity; Taste thresholds; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BODY AWARENESS QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING HABIT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FOOD NEOPHOBIA SCALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUNGER; INTUITION; INTUITIVE EATING SCALE; MALE; NEOPHOBIA; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATIETY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; VARIETY SEEKING TENDENCY SCALE; EYE DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGY; TASTE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; NIGHT BLINDNESS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASTE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879996944     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt021     Document Type: Article

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