Quality-specific effects of aging on the human taste system
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- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Perception & Psychophysics
- Vol. 45 (2) , 121-128
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03208046
Abstract
Elderly persons are known to have elevated taste thresholds, with those for bitter more affected by age, for example, than those for sweet. Do analogous quality-specific effects occur at...This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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