The psychophysical relationships between color and flavorFootnote∗

Paper 2198, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This work supported in part by a grant from U. S. Army Natick Labs No. DAAK03–74‐G‐0003 and Experiment Station Project No. 430.

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