Browsing Cognitive Science URC Student Scholarship by Author "Levitan, Carmel"

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Clarifying the Effects of Flavor Expectations on a Food's Perceived Taste

Chun, Deborah (2010-01-01)

The appearance of food helps guide a consumer's expectation of taste, but it is the prior experiences of the taste buds that foster perceptions of taste. Color and odor are unique and significant to being able to conjure ...
The Effect of Meditation on Maximum and Minimum Dollar Willingness to Pay

Levin, Jai (2011-01-01)

Prior research has explored which specific neurological areas are activated when people calculate how much they would be willing to pay for various household items. Other studies have shown that these neurological areas ...
What you see is what you just heard: The effect of temporal rate adaptation on human intersensory perception

Yih-Hsin, Alison Ban (2010-01-01)

It is unknown from previous studies on perception whether psychophysical adaptation effects transfer from one sense to another. To test for this phenomenon, the current study examines the possible crossmodal transfer of ...