Leaving a Flat Taste in Your Mouth: Task Load Reduces Taste Perception

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1277-1284

  van der Wal, Reine C ^a   van Dillen, Lotte F ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attention; eating behavior; food; self control; task load; taste perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880051401     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612471953     Document Type: Article

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