Challenges the notion that flavor perception is the strongest form of multimodal experience, suggesting alternative views.
Perceptual experiences can be multimodal in weaker or stronger senses. The strongest form is often attributed to flavor perception, since flavors are type-multimodal features: features belonging to a type with no instances that can be experienced through a single sense. This paper accepts that flavors are type-multimodal but challenges the claim that flavor perception involves a stronger form of multimodality than ordinary audiovisual or visuo-tactile experiences. This is because there is a plausible reductive view of content of flavor experiences that is consistent with the philosophical and empirical evidence for the multimodality of flavor perception.
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Błażej Skrzypulec (2026) studied this question.
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