Eating in the dark: A dissociation between perceived and actual food consumption

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 145-151

  Renner, Britta ^a   Sproesser, Gudrun ^a   Stok, F Marijn ^a   Schupp, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blind; Eating; Food intake; Food perception; Food taste; Sight; Vision; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958234399     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.02.010     Document Type: Article

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