Investigations on multimodal sensory integration: Texture, taste, and ortho- and retronasal olfactory stimuli in concert

• Published in: Neuroscience letters Vol. 411; no. 1; pp. 6 - 10
• Main Authors: Bult, Johannes H.F., de Wijk, Rene A., Hummel, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 03.01.2007; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; convergence; Female; flavor release; Flavour; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; human brain; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Multimodal interaction; Odorants; Odour; Olfactory Pathways - drug effects; Olfactory Pathways - physiology; Olfactory system and olfaction. Gustatory system and gustation; Oral texture; perception; Physical Stimulation; smell; Smell - physiology; Stimulus congruency; sucrose; sweetness; Taste - physiology; Time Factors; Touch - physiology; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; viscosity; Stimulus congruency; Flavour; Oral texture; Multimodal interaction; Odour; Gustation; Taste; Gustative system

Perceptual interactions between odour and oral texture were explored in a study in which a cream odour was presented ortho- or retronasally at well-defined moments whilst milk-like foods with different viscosities, produced by adding a thickener, were present in the mouth. Gaseous (odour) and liquid...