Sweet and sour: Music and taste associations

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 357-376

  Kontukoski, Maija ^a   Luomala, Harri ^b   Mesz, Bruno ^c   Sigman, Mariano ^d   Trevisan, Marcos ^d   Rotola Pukkila, Minna ^a   Hopia, Anu Inkeri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cross modal associations; Cross modality; Music; Sourness; Sweetness; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929231014     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: 17586917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/NFS-01-2015-0005     Document Type: Article

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