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Anatomical and Physiological Bases of Food Perception
Lamy, Elsa; Simões, Carla; Caeiro, Inês; Guedes, David; Capela e Silva, FernandoThe perception and appreciation of the sensory qualities of foods largely determine their acceptance by consumers. Food sensory perception starts with the senses and their unique sensory systems, which detect, encode and relay different information inputs to the brain in response to exposure to food stimuli. This chapter describes the anatomical and physiological bases of such processes, from a biological persp...
Oral Food Perception and the Development of Food Preferences: Innate and Learne...
Lamy, Elsa; Guedes, DavidHuman food preferences develop through both innate and learned mechanisms, which operate differently across individuals, leading to variability in food acceptance. Genetic polymorphisms and copy number variations have been identified for sensory receptors, proteins and neurotransmitters, among others, which may explain individual differences in oral food perception and, ultimately, in food preferences. In addit...
Disentangling cross-modality and affect in “sonic seasoning”: The effect of mus...
Guedes, David; Garrido, Margarida; Lamy, Elsa; Prada, MariliaThe presence of music while eating can influence how foods are perceived. One line of inquiry has focused on the potential of music to evoke taste-related associations (such as perceiving a song as “sweet”) to enhance the perception of congruent taste/flavor attributes in foods. However, music is also an expression of emotion, and its influence on mood has been put forward as an alternative explanation to why m...
Normative ratings for the Kitchen and Food Sounds (KFS) database
Prada, Marília; Guedes, David; Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Saraiva, MagdaSounds are important sensory cues for food perception and acceptance. We developed and validated a large-scale database of kitchen and food sounds (180 stimuli) capturing different stages of preparing, cooking, serving, and/or consuming foods and beverages and sounds of packaging, kitchen utensils, and appliances. Each sound was evaluated across nine subjective evaluative dimensions (random order), including st...
Sensitive to music? Examining the crossmodal effect of audition on sweet taste ...
Guedes, David; Prada, Marilia; Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Caeiro, Inês; Simões, Carla; Lamy, ElsaPrevious research has shown that music can influence taste perception. While most studies to date have focused on taste intensity ratings, less is known about the influence of musical stimuli on other parameters of taste function. In this within-subjects experiment (N = 73), we tested the effects of three sound conditions (High Sweetness soundtrack – HS; Low Sweetness soundtrack – LS; and Silence – S) on sweet ...
Bidirectionality in multisensory perception: Examining the mutual influences be...
Guedes, David; Prada, Marilia; Lamy, Elsa; Garrido, Margarida VazPrevious research suggests that people reliably associate sounds and tastes. One important and often-cited implication of these crossmodal correspondences is the modulatory effect of sound on taste perception. In contrast, the potential impact of gustatory sensations on auditory perception has received less empirical attention. This paper presents the results of three experiments examining how listening to a sw...
Sweet music influences sensory and hedonic perception of food products with var...
Guedes, David; Prada, Marilia; Lamy, Elsa; Garrido, Margarida VazReducing sugar intake is an important nutritional goal in most developed countries. Despite the health consequences of excessive sugar consumption (e.g., non-communicable diseases), individuals are often reluctant to shift dietary habits due to the high hedonic appeal of sugar-rich products. Manipulating the intrinsic sensory attributes of foods (such as color or aroma) has been put forward as a promising frame...
The taste & affect music database: Subjective rating norms for a new set of mus...
Guedes, David; Prada, Marilia; Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Lamy, ElsaMusic is a ubiquitous stimulus known to influence human affect, cognition, and behavior. In the context of eating behavior, music has been associated with food choice, intake and, more recently, taste perception. In the latter case, the literature has reported consistent patterns of association between auditory and gustatory attributes, suggesting that individuals reliably recognize taste attributes in musical ...
Crossmodal interactions between audition and taste: A systematic review and nar...
Guedes, David; Garrido, Margarida Vaz; Lamy, Elsa; Pereira Cavalheiro, Bernardo; Prada, MariliaTaste perception results from integrating all the senses. In the case of audition, research shows that people can associate certain auditory parameters (e.g., pitch) with basic tastes. Likewise, the surrounding sonic environment (e.g., noise, music) may influence individuals’ evaluation of the taste attributes of foods and drinks. This paper presents the first pre-registered systematic examination of the litera...
Insights into parents' and teachers' support for policies promoting increased p...
Roque, Lisa; Campos, Lúcia; Guedes, David; Godinho, Cristina; Truninger, Monica; Graça, JoãoGlobal environmental and public health challenges related to current food systems call for large-scale shifts towards increasingly plant-based diets, especially in Western meat-centric societies. School meal systems can play a role in these changes due to their widespread prevalence and multi-sectoral impact. However, there is a lack of evidence about how adults involved in the school meals system perceive scho...