On the psychological impact of food colour

C Spence - Flavour, 2015 - Springer
Colour is the single most important product-intrinsic sensory cue when it comes to setting
people's expectations regarding the likely taste and flavour of food and drink. To date, a …

[HTML][HTML] Conducting perception research over the internet: A tutorial review

AT Woods, C Velasco, CA Levitan, X Wan, C Spence - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
This article provides an overview of the recent literature on the use of internet-based testing
to address important questions in perception research. Our goal is to provide a starting point …

Digital sensory marketing: Integrating new technologies into multisensory online experience

O Petit, C Velasco, C Spence - Journal of Interactive …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
People are increasingly purchasing (eg, food, clothes) and consuming (eg, movies, courses)
online where, traditionally, the sensory interaction has mostly been limited to visual, and to a …

Multisensory flavor perception

C Spence - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
The perception of flavor is perhaps the most multisensory of our everyday experiences. The
latest research by psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists increasingly reveals the …

Hedonic mediation of the crossmodal correspondence between taste and shape

C Velasco, AT Woods, O Deroy, C Spence - Food Quality and Preference, 2015 - Elsevier
Crossmodal correspondences between gustatory (taste), olfactory (smell), and flavour
stimuli on the one hand and visual attributes on the other have been extensively …

Searching for flavor labels in food products: the influence of color-flavor congruence and association strength

C Velasco, X Wan, K Knoeferle, X Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Prior research provides robust support for the existence of a number of associations
between colors and flavors. In the present study, we examined whether congruent (vs …

Cup colour influences consumers' expectations and experience on tasting specialty coffee

FM Carvalho, C Spence - Food Quality and Preference, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study was designed to investigate the effect of the colour of the cup on sensory
and hedonic judgments of specialty coffee by consumers. Altogether, 457 participants took …

The influence of taste-congruent soundtracks on visual attention and food choice: A cross-cultural eye-tracking study in Chinese and Danish consumers

D Peng-Li, DV Byrne, RCK Chan, QJ Wang - Food Quality and Preference, 2020 - Elsevier
Sound can have a profound impact on our eating experience and behavior. The term “sonic
seasoning”, arising from crossmodal correspondences, denotes the tendency for …

On the manipulation, and meaning (s), of color in food: A historical perspective

C Spence - Journal of Food Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While there has long been public concern over the use of artificial/synthetic food colors, it
should be remembered that food and drink products (eg, red wine) have been purposefully …

Colour–taste correspondences: Designing food experiences to meet expectations or to surprise

C Velasco, C Michel, J Youssef… - … Journal of Food …, 2016 - intellectdiscover.com
Recent research demonstrates the existence of a number of surprising associations
(otherwise known as crossmodal correspondences) between seemingly non-related …