Taste Preference and Choice
General Information
The seminar will meet from 1:15 to 2:15pm on Mondays in the Spring of 2011 in the King 3rd Floor North conference room (King 3009). The goal of the seminar is to review measures of taste preference.
Schedule of Papers
(old meetings at end of list.)
February 21: TBA
Dethier, V. "To each his taste: discrimination and preference." From The Hungry Fly, Harvard Univ. Press, 1976.
Excerpt from Dethier, V. "Buy Me a Volcano." Vantage Press, 1967.
February 28: TBA
March 7: Spring Break -- No Meeting
March 14: TBA
Bitter taste in guinea pigs
March 21: TBA
human MRI studies
March 28: TBA
Anorexia and Taste Aversions
April 4: TBA
airlicking and cold licking?
April 11: TBA
No more meetings...
Past Meetings
Janurary 24: P.T.Young
Young, P.T. Selection from "Studies in Affective Psychology VI-VII". Am. J. Psychol. 40 (1928) 372-400.
Young, P.T. et al. Preferences of the white rat for solutions of sucrose and quinine hydrochloride. Am. J. Psychol. 76 (1963) 205-217.
February 7: Saccharin
Collier, G. and K. Novell Saccharin as a sugar surrogate. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 64 (1967) 401-8.
Morrison, G.R. and A. Jessup. Does saccharin have a dual taste for the rat? in Taste and Development, 1977, pp. 42-48.