Using Electrophysiological Measures to Assess the Consumer Acceptability of Smokeless Tobacco Products.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adequate evaluation of novel tobacco products must include investigation of consumers' psychological response to such products. Traditionally, subjective scales of product liking have been used to assess consumer acceptability of tobacco products. However, subjective scales may miss cognitive changes that can only be captured by direct neurophysiological assessment. The present investigation explored the viability of using electroencephalography (EEG), in combination with traditional subjective measures, to assess consumer acceptability of five smokeless tobacco products. Given previous work linking product liking to arousal/attentional (executive function) enhancement, we focused on EEG measures of attention/arousal to objectively characterize cognitive changes associ

SUBMITTER: Buzzell GA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4978978 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature