Table 1.
Means, standard errors, and one-sample t-test against chance level of 0.25 for each taste category from Experiment 1.
Fig 1.
Two-dimensional representation of participants’ similarity ratings of the complex auditory stimuli.
The model shows clustering of individual musical stimuli by corresponding tastes. Each point on the space corresponds to one auditory stimulus, labeled with the associated taste. Dimension 1 is interpretable as texture and dimension 2 as pleasantness.
Fig 2.
Taste preference mirrors music preference.
(a) Correlation between preference ratings for music clips and ganache samples. (b) Taste preference profiles of sweet, sour, and salty music-preferring groups, showing that taste preference mirrors music preference. Radial axes represent taste preference ratings, and show that individuals preferring the sweet music clip also preferred the sweet ganache, while those preferring the salty music clip also preferred the salty ganache.