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Basic tastes as cognitive concepts and taste coding as more than spatial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2008

Patricia M. Di Lorenzo  and
Jen-Yung Chen
Patricia M. Di Lorenzo
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. diloren@binghamton.eduenchen@binghamton.eduhttp://psychology.binghamton.edu/People/index.html
Jen-Yung Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. diloren@binghamton.eduenchen@binghamton.eduhttp://psychology.binghamton.edu/People/index.html
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Abstract

Erickson's treatise intertwines and confuses two major, but separable, issues: whether there are basic tastes and how taste stimuli are encoded. The idea of basic tastes may reflect a natural process of concept formation. By only discussing two spatial coding schemes for taste, Erickson ignores the temporal dimension of taste responses and the contribution of neuronal cooperativity.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , February 2008 , pp. 78 - 79
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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