Probing in-mouth texture perception with a biomimetic tongue
J.B. Thomazo
,
J.C. Pastenes
,
C.J. Pipe
,
B. Le Révérend
,
E. Wandersman
,
A. Prevost
Journal of Royal Society Interface,
16, 159
Published 02 Oct. 2019
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0362
Abstract
An experimental biomimetic tongue palate system has been developed to probe human in-mouth texture perception. Model tongues are made from soft elastomers patterned with fibrillar structures analogous to human filiform papillae. The palate is represented by a rigid flat plate parallel to the plane of the tongue. To probe the behaviour under physiological flow conditions, deflections of model papillae are measured using a novel fluorescent imaging technique enabling sub-micrometre resolution of the displacements. Using optically transparent Newtonian liquids under steady shear flow, we show that deformations of the papillae allow their viscosity to be determined from 1 Pa s down to the viscosity of water (1 mPa s), in full quantitative agreement with a previously proposed model (Lauga et al. 2016 Front. Phys.4, 35 (doi:10.3389/fphy.2016.00035)). The technique is further validated for a shear-thinning and optically opaque dairy system.
Cette publication est associée à :
Mécanique des systèmes biologiques intégrés et artificiels