can taste concepts be misrepresented by traditional psychophysical labelling systems?
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. CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What’s this?
