Does Music Influence the Multisensory Tasting Experience?

Journal of Sensory Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 404-412

  Reinoso Carvalho, Felipe ^a,b   Van Ee, Raymond ^b,c,d   Rychtarikova, Monika ^e   Touhafi, Abdellah ^a   Steenhaut, Kris ^a   Persoone, Dominique ^f   Spence, Charles ^g   Leman, Marc ^h  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^e KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f The Chocolate Line   (Belgium)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT SOUNDS; CROSS-MODAL; FUTURE DESIGNS; MULTISENSORY; PERSONALIZATIONS; USER STUDY;

FOOD TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84943665485     PISSN: 08878250     EISSN: 1745459X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joss.12168     Document Type: Article

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