John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences: Linda M. Bartoshuk, We Live in Different Taste Worlds -- How Do We Know and What Does It Mean?

Bushnell Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science, University of Florida, Gainesville
Sunday, February 20, 2011: 12:00 PM-12:45 PM
146B (Washington Convention Center )
Dr. Bartoshuk holds faculty positions in the College of Dentistry (Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science) and in the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (Food Science and Human Nutrition) and is Director of Human Research in the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste. She received her Ph.D. in psychology working with Carl Pfaffmann at Brown University. Her research is focused on variation in taste (and other oral sensation) that impacts health. In addition she works on the development of psychophysical methodology that can capture sensory and hedonic variation across individuals. Bartoshuk has been elected to the Society for Experimental Psychology, the American Association of Arts and Science and the National Academy of Sciences. She is past president of the Association for Psychological Science, the Eastern Psychological Association, the Association for Chemoreception Sciences and Divisions 1 and 6 of the American Psychological Association.
Speaker:
Linda M. Bartoshuk, Ph.D., University of Florida
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