Taste
Taste offers a uniquely embodied and affectively rich domain for investigating linguistic modulation. Because flavour perception emerges from the integration of gustatory, olfactory, and contextual cues, it provides an ideal test case for expectation-driven effects. For example, unexpected labels (e.g., “smoked salmon ice-cream”) enable us to examine how language recalibrates hedonic evaluation, shifts sensory weighting, and reshapes perceptual experience in real time, sometimes even before the first bite.