News Finding: Individual differences in taste and smell can influence perception of real foods. Now, new data from Breen et al suggests oral touch also has phenotypic variation that may influence texture perception in chocolate.
  
  
  
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Paper Finding: In contrast to the detection threshold data, substantially more variability was observed in discrimination threshold estimates across individuals.
News Context: Individual differences in taste and smell can influence perception of real foods. Now, new data from Breen et al suggests oral touch also has phenotypic variation that may influence texture perception in chocolate.
  
  
  
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Paper Context: However, those studies did not directly assess potential relationships between pressure point sensitivity and FP density, and we did not collect data on FP density here, so additional work is needed to explore possible relationships between papillae density and oral somatosensory function. In contrast to the detection threshold data, substantially more variability was observed in discrimination threshold estimates across individuals. We did not find evidence of any significant differences in terms of discrimination ability across loci; however, discrimination threshold estimates did seem to show the same pattern as the detection thresholds, with the tongue tip having slightly lower threshold estimates.