Visual influence of shapes and semantic familiarity on human sweet sensitivity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 253, Issue , 2013, Pages 42-47

  Liang, Pei ^a   Roy, Soumyajit ^b   Chen, Meng Ling ^a   Zhang, Gen Hua ^a  

^a CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

Hedonic ratings; Multisensory integration; Semantic familiarity; Taste; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WORDIAN;

HEDONIC RATINGS; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; SEMANTIC FAMILIARITY; TASTE; VISION;

CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TASTE; TASTE THRESHOLD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880961453     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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