Trial reportChemical senses2012
Enhancement of retronasal odors by taste.
Trial report in Chemical senses, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 140 citations in OpenAlex.
- Retronasal Olfaction Test Methods: A Systematic ReviewBalkan medical journal · 2019Pooled it
- Differential Effects of BMI on Brain Response to Odor in Olfactory, Reward and Memory Regions: Evidence from fMRI.Nutrients · 2019Trial
- Congruency of multisensory olfactory stimuli.Chemical senses · 2025Article
- Taste enhances the ability to express a preference for a congruent odor in rats.Behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Elucidating salt-reduction mechanisms of aroma-active compounds from yeast extracts through sensomics approaches and electroencephalography.Food chemistry: X · 2024Article
- Multisensory Integration Underlies the Distinct Representation of Odor-Taste Mixtures in the Gustatory Cortex of Behaving Rats.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The role of the mediodorsal thalamus in chemosensory preference and consummatory behavior in rats.Chemical senses · 2024Article
- Analysis of Non-Volatile Compounds in Jasmine Tea and Jasmine Based on Metabolomics and Sensory Evaluation.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dynamic Instrumental and Sensory Methods Used to Link Aroma Release and Aroma Perception: A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Enhancement of taste by retronasal odors in patients with Wolfram syndrome and decreased olfactory function.Chemical senses · 2023Article
- Multisensory integration of orally-sourced gustatory and olfactory inputs to the posterior piriform cortex in awake rats.The Journal of physiology · 2023Article
- Olfactory-gustatory simultaneity judgments: A preliminary study on the congruency-dependent temporal window of multisensory binding.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Strategies to Reduce Salt Content and Its Effect on Food Characteristics and Acceptance: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Human Oral Sensitivity to and Taste Modulation by 3-Mercapto-2-Methylpentan-1-ol.Chemosensory perception · 2022Article
- Odor-Taste-Texture Interactions as a Promising Strategy to Tackle Adolescent Overweight.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Effective Connectivity in the Human Brain for Sour Taste, Retronasal Smell, and Combined Flavour.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- What Is the Relationship between the Presence of Volatile Organic Compounds in Food and Drink Products and Multisensory Flavour Perception?Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Perspective: Measuring Sweetness in Foods, Beverages, and Diets: Toward Understanding the Role of Sweetness in Health.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Review
- Cortical Hub for Flavor Sensation in Rodents.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Review
- Odor-Taste Interactions in Food Perception: Exposure Protocol Shows No Effects of Associative Learning.Chemical senses · 2021Article
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Abstract
Psychophysical studies of interactions between retronasal olfaction and taste have focused most often on the enhancement of tastes by odors, which has been attributed primarily to a response bias (i.e., halo dumping). Based upon preliminary evidence that retronasal odors could also be enhanced by taste, the present study measured both forms of enhancement using appropriate response categories. In the first experiment, subjects rated taste ("sweet," "sour," "salty," and "bitter") and odor ("other") intensity for aqueous samples of 3 tastants (sucrose, NaCl, and citric acid) and 3 odorants (vanillin, citral, and furaneol), both alone and in taste-odor mixtures. The results showed that sucrose, but not the other taste stimuli, significantly increased the perceived intensity of all 3 odors. Enhancement of tastes by odors was inconsistent and generally weaker than enhancement of odors by sucrose. A second experiment used a flavored beverage and a custard dessert to test whether the findings from the first experiment would hold for the perception of actual foods. Adding sucrose significantly enhanced the intensity of "cherry" and "vanilla" flavors, whereas adding vanillin did not significantly enhance the intensity of sweetness. It is proposed that enhancement of retronasal odors by a sweet stimulus results from an adaptive sensory mechanism that serves to increase the salience of the flavor of nutritive foods.
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