Searching for individual multi-sensory fingerprints and their links with adiposity – New insights from meta-analyses and empirical data Ginieis, R, Abeywickrema, S, Oey, I, Keast, Russell and Peng, M 2022, Searching for individual multi-sensory fingerprints and their links with adiposity – New insights from meta-analyses and empirical data, Food Quality and Preference, vol. 99, doi: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104574. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Searching for individual multi-sensory fingerprints and their links with adiposity – New insights from meta-analyses and empirical data Author(s) Ginieis, R Abeywickrema, S Oey, I Keast, Russell orcid.org/0000-0003-2147-7687 Peng, M Journal name Food Quality and Preference Volume number 99 Publisher p Publication date 2022-07-01 ISSN 0950-3293 Summary Understanding how human senses are linked to eating behaviour and adiposity has been a key topic in sensory science, and a source of substantial controversy. Despite strong correlations in sensitivity across different sensory modalities, the fundamental question of whether individuals possess a ‘generalised sensitivity’ across senses remains unanswered. A better understanding of the relationships between multiple senses and eating behaviour is needed to tackle the current obesity epidemic. The present study synthesises published data regarding sensory sensitivities across modalities and presents new empirical findings. Specifically, we synthesise findings from 115 publications, including meta-analyses of 26 studies. These data reveal strong yet complex links between senses, highlighting the potential of multi-sensory analyses to better characterise sensory variations. In the empirical study, 98 Caucasian males (25.9 ± 5.8 years of age; body mass index: 26.8 ± 5.1 kg∙m−2) are tested for their supra-threshold sensory sensitivities (d′) to 11 food-related mono-modal stimuli across olfaction, gustation, vision, and audition. Canonical correlations on d′ for each modality reveal significant positive correlations between olfaction and gustation (p < 0.001), vision and audition (p < 0.001), as well as olfaction and audition (p = 0.008). Additionally, K-means cluster analysis identifies three broad groups of individuals with distinct multi-sensory fingerprints. Intriguingly, individuals in separate clusters are shown to have significantly different adiposity measures (body mass index: p = 0.01; body fat percentages: p = 0.05). Overall, this study sheds important new light on multi-sensory ‘fingerprints’, and their links to obesity. DOI 10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104574 Indigenous content off Field of Research 0908 Food Sciences 1505 Marketing Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30166628 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Health School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 08:17:10 EST Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 16:13:38 EST Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 16:19:11 EST Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 06:04:49 EST Mon, 02 May 2022, 09:51:09 EST Mon, 02 May 2022, 14:06:27 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 1 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 6 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 12 Apr 2022, 08:17:10 EST