A book excerpt from Salon:
This article is an adapted excerpt from "Taste What You're Missing, available March 13 from Free Press.
If your sense of taste is offended, you can spit out an unappealing food. You can pinch your nose when an awful odor overwhelms you. To shut out offensive images, you can simply close your eyes. But since you have no earlids, your sense of hearing is often assaulted without your permission — even during a meal.
A study conducted by the food company Unilever and the University of Manchester wanted to find out whether background sounds affect the ...
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/11/the_taste_of_sound/