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Review
. 1978 Jun;31(6):1068-77.
doi: 10.1093/ajcn/31.6.1068.

The psychophysics of taste

L M Bartoshuk
Review

The psychophysics of taste

L M Bartoshuk. Am J Clin Nutr. 1978 Jun.

Abstract

Modern psychophysical studies of sensory systems have produced new insight into sensory function and new techniques that have application to the clinical evaluation of taste. Most previous taste evaluation has been done with threshold measures that are subject to a variety of problems and that also fail to provide an accurate picture of suprathreshold sensitivity. The scaling of suprathreshold intensity reflects a patient's taste world more accurately than thresholds.

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