Influence of stimulus duration on a regional measure of NaCl taste sensitivity.
The present study demonstrates that perithreshold temporal integration occurs in the human taste system across stimulus durations ranging from 200 to 1500 ms in a manner analogous to that seen in other major sensory systems. Thus, the notion that gustation is comparatively insensitive to temporal stimulus parameters at threshold levels is disproved.
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Smell and Taste Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
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