Subjective touch sensitivity leads to behavioral shifts in oral food texture sensitivity and awareness.

ABSTRACT: Neurotypical individuals have subjective sensitivity differences that may overlap with more heavily studied clinical populations. However, it is not known whether these subjective differences in sensory sensitivity are modality specific, or lead to behavioral shifts. In our experiment, we measured the oral touch sensitivity and food texture awareness differences in two neurotypical groups having either a high or low subjective sensitivity in touch modality. To measure oral touch sensitivity, individuals performed discrimination tasks across three types of stimuli (liquid, semisolid, and solid). Next, they performed two sorting exercises for two texture-centric food products: cookies and crackers. The stimuli that required low oral processing (liquid) were discriminated at higher rates by p

SUBMITTER: Pellegrino R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511070 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature