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Perception of Texture by Trained and Consumer Panelists
Author(s) -
CARDELLO ARMAND V.,
MALLER OWEN,
KAPSALIS JOHN G.,
SEGARS RONALD A.,
SAWYER F. MILES,
MURPHY CLAIRE,
MOSKOWITZ HOWARD R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1750-3841
pISSN - 0022-1147
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2621.1982.tb07646.x
Subject(s) - perception , texture (cosmology) , psychology , range (aeronautics) , artificial intelligence , social psychology , mathematics , cognitive psychology , computer science , image (mathematics) , engineering , neuroscience , aerospace engineering
Four experiments were conducted to assess the relationships between judgments of the perceived texture of foods by trained and consumer panelists. In Experiment 1, no differences were observed between trained texture profile panelists and naive consumers in a similarities scaling task. In Experiments 2 and 3, good linear correlations were observed between scalar judgments of texture, although a broader perceptual range was evidenced for trained panelists. In Experiment 4, psychophysical exponents of texture were found to be larger for trained than for consumer panelists, and judgments of acceptability also differed between the two groups. It was concluded that, through experience, trained texture profile panelists develop a broader perceptual range of textures, but that regression equations can be developed to relate these data to consumer data.