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Cross-modal tactile-taste interactions in food evaluations
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Detecting the taste components within a flavoured substance relies on exposing chemoreceptors within the mouth to the chemical components of ingested food. In our paper, we show that the evaluation of taste components can also be influenced by the tactile quality of the food. We first discuss how multisensory factors might influence taste, flavour and smell for both typical and atypical (synaesthetic) populations and we then present two empirical studies showing tactile-taste interactions in the general population. We asked a group of non-synaesthetic adults to evaluate the taste components of flavoured food substances, whilst we presented simultaneous cross-sensory visuo-tactile cues within the eating environment. Specifically, we presented foodstuffs between subjects that were otherwise identical but had a rough versus smooth surface, or were served on a rough versus smooth serving-plate. We found no effect of the serving-plate, but we found the rough/smoothness of the foodstuff itself significantly influenced perception: food was rated as significantly more sour if it had a rough (versus smooth) surface. In modifying taste perception via ostensibly unrelated dimensions, we demonstrate that the detection of tastes within flavours may be influenced by higher level cross-sensory cues. Finally, we suggest that the direction of our cross-sensory associations may speak to the types of hedonic mapping found both in normal multisensory integration, and in the unusual condition of synaesthesia.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Slocombe, B. G., Carmichael, D. A., & Simner, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Carmichael, D.A.
- Venue
- Neuropsychologia
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-07
- Volume
- 88
- Pages
- 58-64
- ISSN
- 0028-3932 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5072487
- OpenAlex
- W854662791
- Cited by
- 95
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 7
- FWCI
- 9.07
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Neuropsychologia (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Edinburgh Napier Research Repository (Edinburgh Napier University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Scottish Government
- European Research Council (617678)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Keywords
- cross-modal correspondence, multisensory integration, synesthesia, taste perception, food texture, roughness, sour taste, flavor
- MeSH terms
- Synesthesia, Adult, Cues, Female, Food, Humans, Male, Perceptual Disorders, Taste, Touch, Taste Perception, Touch Perception, Young Adult
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