Figure 3.

Mean ratings of sweet intensity (left), sour intensity (center), and citrus intensity (right) given to the 8 stimuli in Experiment 3: water, W; lemon, L; sucrose, Su; citric acid, CA; and mixtures of lemon and sucrose, L-Su; lemon and citric acid, L-CA; sucrose and citric acid, Su-CA; and lemon, sucrose, and citric acid, L-Su-CA. Error bars depict standard errors of the means; for clarity, only the negative parts of symmetrical error bars are shown. Significant results of post hoc t-tests between stimuli are indicated by brackets and an asterisk.