Taste worlds of humans vary because of taste blindness to phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and
its chemical relative, 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP). We review earlyPTC studies and apply …

Modern psychophysics has traveled considerably beyond the threshold measures that
dominated sensory studies in the first half of this century. Current methods capture the range …

This book contains information about methods for measuring subjective somatic symptoms.
The main focus is on the presentation of 2 scaling methods: the Borg RPE scale and the …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and …

Labeled scales are commonly used for across-group comparisons. The labels consist of
adjective/adverb intensity descriptors (eg,“very strong”). The relative distances among …

This chapter describes the potential uses for descriptive analysis in sensory evaluation. We
then discuss the use of language and concept formation as well as the requirements for …

Psychophysical comparisons seem to show that obese individuals experience normal sweet
and fat sensations, they like sweetness the same or less, but like fat more than the non …

The purposes of this study were:(a) to determine whether subjects are able to distinguish
between differences in footwear with respect to footwear comfort; and (b) to determine how …

Objective To determine if individuals who taste 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP), one marker of
genetic variation in taste, as exceptionally bitter can also perceive sugars as sweeter, other …

This study compared pain perception in young male and female subjects, using
experimental noxious heat stimuli. During 2 sessions, each of 40 subjects rated the …