Linda Bartoshuk

• Research Professor of Psychology, George Washington University

Dr. Bartoshuk is a Research Professor at George Washington University. She has been president of the Association for Psychological Science, Eastern Psychological Association, Divisions 1 and 6 of the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Chemoreception Sciences. She has been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. She has received the AAAS McGovern Award in Behavioral Sciences, the APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, The AChemS Mozell Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Chemical Senses and the APS William James Fellow Award. Bartoshuk and her students have studied genetic variation in taste as well as patients with taste disorders (using anesthesia to simulate these disorders in normal controls). Older psychophysical methods (category and VAS) were not designed to compare different groups of individuals; Bartoshuk and her students needed such comparisons (e.g., comparisons across different genetic groups; patients vs controls) and so developed new sensory and hedonic scaling tools that could provide them. Most recently she has studied interactions between specific volatiles and taste that have led to ways to enhance sweet or salty tastes in foods.

• –present Research professor, George Washington University

APS, James Award; AAAS McGovern Award; AChemS Mozell Award; APA Distinguish Contribution Award

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