Assessing the impact of music on basic taste perception using time intensity analysis

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Several recent studies have examined the impact of music on the evaluation of food and drink, but none have relied on time-based methods. Since music and food/drink are both time-varying in nature, it would seem only appropriate to take temporality into account when studying the impact of music on the eating/drinking experience. A common method of time-based sensory evaluation of food products is time-intensity (TI), where a specific sensory attribute is measured over time. In the present investigation, we used TI analysis to measure temporal changes in sweetness and sourness evaluations of an off-dry white wine when the music stimulus changed from a soundtrack commonly associated with sweetness to one associated with sourness instead, and vice versa. The results revealed that a change of soundtrack results in a change in taste intensity (for both sweetness and sourness) in the same direction as the change in the soundtrack. More specifically, a switch from the sweet to the sour soundtrack enhanced the intensity of sourness, whereas a switch from sour to sweet soundtrack enhanced the perceived intensity of sweetness. Potential implications for the mechanisms underlying the auditory modification of taste and opportunities for future studies are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMHFI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction, Co-located with ICMI 2017
EditorsMarianna Obrist, Anton Nijholt, Carlos Velasco, Rick Schifferstein, Charles Spence, Anton Nijholt, Katsunori Okajima
Number of pages5
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publication date2017
Pages18-22
ISBN (Electronic)9781450355568
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction, MHFI 2017 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 13 Nov 2017 → …

Conference

Conference2nd ACM SIGCHI International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction, MHFI 2017
LandUnited Kingdom
ByGlasgow
Periode13/11/2017 → …
SponsorACM SIGCHI

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.

    Research areas

  • Attention, Crossmodal correspondences, Drink, Multisensory taste/flavor perception, Sound

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