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Food Recognition by the Elderly
Abstract
While blindfolded, 27 young college students and 29 elderly subjects tasted and smelled a series of unseasoned blended foods. The elderly subjects were significantly less able to identify the foods than young subjects. The elderly subjects rated the foods on adjective scales in such a way that a multidimensional scaling of these ratings yielded only one dimension, related to the hedonic aspect of the foods. The multidimensional solution for youthful subjects' ratings was two-dimensional, indicating more discrimination among foods for young subjects compared with the elderly. Significantly more elderly subjects commented on the weakness of the smell or taste of the foods.
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- Authors
- Schiffman, S.
- Venue
- Journal of Gerontology
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1977-09-01
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 586-592
- ISSN
- 0022-1422 (ISSN-L)
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- W1996368642
- Cited by
- 185
- References
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- FWCI
- 5.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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