Hedonic mediation of the crossmodal correspondence between taste and shape

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 41, Issue , 2015, Pages 151-158

  Velasco, Carlos ^a   Woods, Andy T ^b   Deroy, Ophelia ^c   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Xperiment   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossmodal correspondences; Hedonics; Shape; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920261165     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2014.11.010     Document Type: Article

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