Taste sorting and naming: can taste concepts be misrepresented by traditional psychophysical labelling systems?
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Chemical Senses
- Vol. 12 (1) , 37-51
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/12.1.37
Abstract
Japanese and American subjects were required to sort filter papers, soaked in taste stimuli, into categories that had conceptually the same taste. Both Japanese and Americans sorted in the same manner, indicating similar conceptualization. Taste names were given to the taste categories obtained by using the traditional ‘four basic taste’ naming system, common in taste psychophysics. This method was seen to underestimate the number of categories actually present. This suggests a re-assessment of current psychophysical taste-naming techniques.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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