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ArticleNutrients2019

Repeatability of Taste Recognition Threshold Measurements with

Richard Höchenberger, Kathrin Ohla

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Article in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Richard HöchenbergerInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0380-4798
Kathrin OhlaInstitute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3), Research Center Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7265-0449
Forschungszentrum Jülich · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Taste perception, although vital for nutrient sensing, has long been overlooked in sensory assessments. This can, at least in part, be attributed to challenges associated with the handling of liquid, perishable stimuli, but also with scarce efforts to optimize testing procedures to be more time-efficient. We have previously introduced an adaptive, QUEST-based procedure to measure taste sensitivity thresholds that was quicker than other existing approaches, yet similarly reliable. Despite its advantages, the QUEST procedure lacks experimental control of false alarms (i.e., response bias) and psychometric function slope. Variations of these parameters, however, may also influence the threshold estimate. This raises the question as to whether a procedure that simultaneously assesses threshold, false-alarm rate, and slope might be able to produce threshold estimates with higher repeatability, i.e., smaller variation between repeated measurements. Here, we compared the performance of QUEST with a method that allows measurement of false-alarm rates and slopes,

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AdultBayes TheoremCitric AcidFemaleHumansMalePsychometricsQuinineReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySodium ChlorideSucroseTaste ThresholdTongueYoung AdultCitric AcidQuinineSodium ChlorideSucrosebiasQUESTquick Yes–No (qYN)sensitivitystaircasetastethreshold

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