Listening Tests and how length of time spent listening alters perception ex.

[Nat]

Well, I try not to assume. I'm curious, and asking questions about my own experiences and what I've read. Like you, I haven't found that being dogmatic advances the conversation.

 

[Doug G.]

Has anybody else ever taken a drink of something you assumed was going to be a particular thing, say Coca Cola, and it was something else, say Seven up,? For the first second or so, you taste Coca Cola.

Doug

 

[E-Stat]

Has anybody else ever taken a drink of something you assumed was going to be a particular thing, say Coca Cola, and it was something else, say Seven up,?

There have been times when I expected Coke as ordered and immediately got the decidedly sweeter taste of Pepsi instead. Big disappointment.

 

[Nat]

Here is an interesting thing to do: Buy two packs of the cheapest sandwich cookies you can find, one vanilla, the other chocolate. If you eat them in the normal way, the vanilla tastes like vanilla and chocolate like chocolate, given allowances for not being very good versions of either. Then try them blind, without knowing which is which. You will not be able to tell the flavors apart. And that's because there isn't any - the difference is simply caramel coloring. Eat enough of them and you will come across wafers that are half one color, half the other, and they will also taste exactly the same.
What is weird is that when you look at them, they taste the way you would expect they should.