People form mental concepts of categories of objects, which permit them to respond
appropriately to new objects they encounter by making inferences from properties of known …

The ability to categorize food and nonfood correctly and to distinguish between different
foods is essential for our survival. Because of our omnivore nature and because of the food …

Feature listing is a novel method to study people's rich, multifaceted cognitive
representations of food and drink objects. In other words, it helps researchers understand …

This project examined adults' food cognitions by applying schema theory to explain how
adults categorized foods for different contexts. Qualitative interviews and repeated card sort …

Seven studies examined how people represent, access, and make inferences about a rich
real-world category domain, foods. The representation of the category was assessed by …

The purpose of this study is to compare a free sorting task based on similarities to a
descriptive analysis, both applied to the visual description of plastic pieces. On the one …

The objective of the present study was to investigate the efficiency of sorting procedures, as
an alternative to quantitative descriptive analysis, to obtain a sensory map of food products …

People are more likely to accept, integrate, and act on nutrition information that corresponds
with their food cognitions. The purpose of this project was to explore and describe how …

Studies have indicated that profiling and (dis) similarity scaling yield different perceptual
product maps. Conceptually, these two procedures are different. This paper looks at a third …

Highlights•Projective techniques are a group of qualitative sensory techniques.•They allow
access to underlying or deep attitudes and emotions of consumers.•The are classified or sub …