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Facial expressions and genetic sensitivity to 6-n-propylthiouracil predict hedonic response to sweet.
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The results suggest that the sweet liker/disliker distinction is robust and valid, and that sensitivity to PROP may influence preference for sweet by altering the quality of sweet.About:
This article is published in Physiology & Behavior.The article was published on 1992-07-01. It has received 148 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supertaster.read more
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PTC/PROP tasting: Anatomy, psychophysics, and sex effects
TL;DR: In the laboratory, scaling of PROP bitterness led to the identification of a subset of tasters (supertasters) who rate PROP as intensely bitter, and anatomical data support the sex difference; women have more fungiform papillae and more taste buds.
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Genetic and environmental determinants of bitter perception and sweet preferences
TL;DR: The effects of race/ethnicity were the strongest determinants, thus suggesting that cultural forces and experience may override this genotype effect on sweet preferences, as well as a portion of individual differences in preferences for sweet flavors in children but not in adults.
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Nonnutritive sweetener consumption in humans: effects on appetite and food intake and their putative mechanisms
TL;DR: A critical review of the literature suggests that the addition of NNS to non-energy-yielding products may heighten appetite, but this is not observed under the more common condition in which NNS is ingested in conjunction with other energy sources.
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Role of parents in the determination of the food preferences of children and the development of obesity
TL;DR: The role of parental behaviour in the development of food preferences is considered and an understanding of the characteristic innate tendencies and developmental stages can be used to teach healthy food preferences.
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Comparing sensory experiences across individuals: recent psychophysical advances illuminate genetic variation in taste perception
TL;DR: Modern psychophysics has traveled considerably beyond the threshold measures that dominated sensory studies in the first half of this century and promise to provide increasingly accurate comparisons of perceived intensities across individuals.
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Physiological Role of Pleasure
TL;DR: The existence of alliesthesia implies the presence of internal signals modifying the concious sensations aroused from peripheral receptors, and it is necessary to question the existence of sensations aroused by direct stimulation of central receptors, such as hypothalamic temperature detectors, osmoreceptors, and others.
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Sequential estimation of points on a psychometric function.
G. B. Wetherill,H. Levitt +1 more
TL;DR: A simple and efficient method of estimating points on the psychometric function, and thus of estimating absolute and difference limens, is described.
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Cultural expectations of thinness in women.
TL;DR: This study attempts to document and quantify the shift toward a thinner ideal shape for females in the authors' culture over the last 20 years, including data from Playboy centerfolds and Miss America Pageant contestants and a significant increase in diet articles in six popular women's magazines.
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The taste reactivity test. I. Mimetic responses to gustatory stimuli in neurologically normal rats
Harvey J. Grill,Ralph Norgren +1 more
TL;DR: These normative data for the intact rat can be directly compared to the taste reactivity of neurally ablated preparations which do not spontaneously feed or drink and can be utlized in determining the neural substrates necessary for the execution and regulation of ingestive behavior.
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Human Facial Expressions in Response to Taste and Smell Stimulation
TL;DR: This chapter shows facial expressions in the experimental part of the discussion and illustrates the three prototypes of facial play described by Darwin as that of ‘good spirit,’ of “contempt,” and of � “low spirit or disgust.”