When visual cues influence taste/flavour perception: A systematic review and the critical appraisal of multisensory flavour perception

K Motoki, C Spence, C Velasco - Food Quality and Preference, 2023 - Elsevier
There has been a noticeable increase of interest in research on multisensory flavour
perception in recent years. Humans are visually dominant creatures and a growing body of …

Exploring group differences in the crossmodal correspondences

C Spence - Multisensory Research, 2022 - brill.com
There has been a rapid growth of interest amongst researchers in the cross-modal
correspondences in recent years. In part, this has resulted from the emerging realization of …

Visual communication via the design of food and beverage packaging

C Spence, G Van Doorn - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2022 - Springer
A rapidly growing body of empirical research has recently started to emerge highlighting the
connotative and/or semiotic meanings that consumers typically associate with specific …

Explaining visual shape–taste crossmodal correspondences

C Spence - Multisensory research, 2023 - brill.com
A growing body of experimental research now demonstrates that neurologically normal
individuals associate different taste qualities with design features such as curvature …

Relationships between autistic traits, taste preference, taste perception, and eating behaviour

N Chen, K Watanabe, T Kobayakawa… - European Eating …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder exhibit atypical taste perception and eating
behaviours. However, little is known about the effect of autistic traits on eating behaviours in …

Color-taste correspondence tested by the Stroop task

Y Yang, N Chen, M Kobayashi, K Watanabe - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
People consistently associate colors with tastes (eg, pink-sweet, yellow-sour). However, little
has been known on the strength of those color-taste correspondences. The current study …

[HTML][HTML] Individual differences in sensitivity to taste-shape crossmodal correspondences

EG Chuquichambi, E Munar, C Spence… - Food Quality and …, 2024 - Elsevier
People generally associate curved and symmetrical shapes with sweetness, while
associating angular and asymmetrical shapes with the other basic tastes (eg, sour, bitter) …

A taste for beauty: On the expected taste, hardness, texture, and temperature of geometric shapes

G Juravle, EL Olari, C Spence - i-Perception, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Rounded shapes, which have been shown to enhance sweetness, were compared to the
perfectly symmetrical Platonic solids. In a first online experiment, participants were …

Crossmodal correspondences between visual features and tastes in preschoolers: an exploratory study

X Meng, N Chen, J Ishida, K Watanabe… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Adults possess a natural inclination to associate sensory cues derived from
distinct modalities, such as the pairing of sweet with pink. However, studies exploring …

Synergistic combination of visual features in vision–taste crossmodal correspondences

BP Lee, C Spence - Multisensory Research, 2023 - brill.com
There has been a rapid recent growth in academic attempts to summarise, understand, and
predict the taste profile matching complex images that incorporate multiple visual design …