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SIMULATING PERCEIVED SIMILARITIES BETWEEN TASTE MIXTURES HAVING MUTUALLY INTERACTING COMPONENTS
Author(s) -
Gregson R. A. M.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of mathematical and statistical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.157
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 2044-8317
pISSN - 0007-1102
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8317.1968.tb00402.x
Subject(s) - taste , perception , stimulus (psychology) , artifact (error) , psychology , multidimensional scaling , similarity (geometry) , scaling , cognitive psychology , computer science , social psychology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , statistics , neuroscience , geometry , image (mathematics)
Empirical findings about the perceived interaction of the components of qualitatively complex taste stimuli are reviewed and summarized. The revision of multidimensional scaling equations to incorporate a simulation of a mutually inhibitory or facilitatory interaction between components is discussed. Data from a previously published study on the perception of similarity among taste mixtures are re‐analysed for illustrative purposes and a description of them is shown to be less adequate when provision is made for one form of interaction than when this is omitted. A reclassification of stimulus‐response paradigms for studying taste mixture perception is outlined; and it is suggested that the interaction of taste components may be an artifact of the response measures used.