Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence stars in this new short video about sensibility about senses: https://vimeo.com/170509976 [vimeo]170509976[/vimeo] The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize for nutrition was awarded to Massimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person […]
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New Yorker profile of Ig Nobel-winning chew-a-Pringle researcher’s research
The taste-smell-sound-look-and-feel research of Ig Nobel Prize winner Charles Spence gets a good, sensory-rich going over, in a New Yorker profile called “Accounting for Taste,” by Nicola Twilley. It says, in part: Outside the academy, the paper failed to generate any interest until 2008, when its authors were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Nutrition. […]