Word: psychophysicists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quantitative, meaning that I was asked to rate the intensity of different concentrations. During Bartoshuk's "whole-mouth" test, when I rinsed with the diluted solutions, I wore headphones and was asked to rate the strength of sound tones administered intermittently by Dr. Lawrence E. Marks, an auditory psychophysicist. This procedure, known as magnitude matching, is used as a form of control. Psychophysicists have found that a subject's perception of strength in taste concentrations usually matches the strength rating of comparable intensities of sound. Throughout the test, I wondered how my palate (used in the broadest sense...
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