Haptic exploration of plateware alters the perceived texture and taste of food

Food Quality and Preference

Volumn 50, Issue , 2016, Pages 129-134

  Biggs, Lulie ^a   Juravle, Georgiana ^b   Spence, Charles ^c  

^a Flavour SenseNation   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flavour; Haptics; Oral somatosensory; Sensation transference; Taste; Texture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975747630     PISSN: 09503293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2016.02.007     Document Type: Article

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