| Abstract
| - A method has been improved for recording and processing perceived intensity/time curves constructed from panel results. A slide-wire potentiometer, coupled to a microcomputer, is used to store the data recorded, which are subsequently treated to eliminate end-effects caused by use of the potentiometer. The data are then averaged according to their statistical distributions in time and intensity directions. This averaging procedure gives a panel curve in which the three main parameters - the maximum perceived intensity, the time of maximum perceived intensity (tmax) and the time after which the flavour is no longer perceived - are averages of all the corresponding individual scores. Results show that a stronger stimulus is perceived longer and more intensely, but with the same tmaxvalue.
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