Multisensory Flavor Priming

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  • Garmt Bernard Dijksterhuis

Flavor is multisensory; several interacting sensory systems-taste, smell, and mouthfeel-together comprise "flavor," making it a cognitively constructed percept rather than a bottom-up sensory one. In this chapter, some of the complications this entails for flavor priming are introduced, along with a taxonomy of different priming situations. In food-related applications of flavor, both bottom-up (sensory) as well as top-down (expectations) processes are at play. Most of the complex interactions that this leads to take place outside the awareness of the perceiving subject. A model is presented where many, past and current, aspects (sensory, surroundings, social, somatic, sentimental) of a (flavor) perception, together result in the perception of a flavor, its liking. or its choice. This model borrows on ideas from priming, situated/embodied cognition, and (food-related) perception.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMultisensory Flavor Perception : From Fundamental Neuroscience Through to the Marketplace
EditorsBetina Piqueras-Fiszman, Charles Spence
Number of pages21
PublisherWoodhead Publishing
Publication date2016
Pages133-153
Chapter7
ISBN (Print)9780081003503
ISBN (Electronic)9780081003510
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
SeriesWoodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition

    Research areas

  • Context, Expectations, Flavor, Food perception, Multisensory, Priming, Sensory perception

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