title: Influence of chemoreception and psychologic state on food selection.
abstract: The extent to which sensory psychophysical studies can show whether or not foods taste the same to different individuals, or to the same individual over time, is reviewed and related to current research tools.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011601:Psychophysics; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013649:Taste / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D013652:Taste Threshold / Q000502:physiology