Perceptual interactions in mixtures containing bitter tasting substances

• Published in: Physiology & behavior Vol. 56; no. 6; pp. 1243 - 1249
• Main Authors: Frijters, Jan E.R., Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Elsevier Inc 01.12.1994; New York, NY Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Biological and medical sciences; Bitterness; Central Integration; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; Female; Food Preferences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Heterogeneous; Humans; Male; Olfaction. Taste; Percept; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychophysics; Quinine; Saltiness; Sodium Chloride, Dietary; Suppression; Taste; Taste Threshold; Heterogeneous; Central Integration; Saltiness; Percept; Bitterness; Suppression; Human; Salty taste; Gustation; Central nervous system; Bitter taste; Information processing; Perception; Mixture; Brain (vertebrata)

Mixtures of Quinine HCl and NaCl elicit heterogeneous taste percepts. Each such percept consists of a bitter and a salt sensation. Using functional measurement in combination with a two-stimulus procedures, it was found that the NaCl suppresses the QHCl bitterness and that QHCl has almost no suppres...