Multisensory Perception: The Building of Flavor Representations.
The perceptual construct of flavor is built on the basis of interactions between taste and odor processing. Recent work sheds new light on how intimately coupled these two senses are, and call into question conventional views about the 'unisensory' processing of odors.
Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA; Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Electronic address: mark.wallace@vanderbilt.edu.
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