Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense—taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic differences in the category boundaries of edible bulbs, we examined whether monolingual speakers of English and bilingual speakers of Norwegian and English were influenced by language‐specific categories during tasting. The results showed no evidence of such effects, not even for the Norwegian participants in an entirely Norwegian context. This suggests that crosslinguistic differences in visual perception do not readily generalize to the domain of taste. We discuss the findings in terms of predictive processing, with particular reference to trigeminal stimulation (a central tasting component) and the interplay between chemosensory signals and top‐down linguistic modulation.

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食品标签的跨语言差异不会产生味觉差异

研究表明，不同语言的使用者对现实的认知和感知处理可能有所不同。这一研究方向的一个共同点是其对视觉感官领域的依赖。我们研究的目的是将范围扩大到一种新的感觉——品味。以可食用球茎类别边界的跨语言差异为起点，我们研究了英语单语使用者以及挪威语和英语双语使用者在品尝过程中是否受到特定语言类别的影响。结果没有显示出这种影响的证据，即使对于完全挪威环境中的挪威参与者来说也是如此。这表明视觉感知的跨语言差异不容易推广到味觉领域。我们讨论了预测处理方面的发现，特别是三叉神经刺激（味觉的核心成分）以及化学感应信号和自上而下的语言调制之间的相互作用。