The role of saliva in taste and food intake.

"From A-M Torregrossa: This manuscript is based on the work that was to be presented during the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study for Ingestive Behavior. Laura Martin and Verenice Ascencio Gutierrez collected the data in Fig. 1 and wrote sections of the manuscript. I regret that due to a family emergency my trip to Porto was canceled at the last minute. Missing this meeting is a deep regret. I cannot state strongly enough how honored I am to have received the Alan N. Epstein Research Award this year. I attended my first SSIB meeting in Philadelphia in 2001 as technician in the Bourne lab. For the last 20+ years SSIB has been a great source of friends, collaborations, support and one of my scientific homes. I am so grateful to the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior awards committee and those who supported my nomination. I want to thank my current and former (official and unofficial) mentors Drs. Gerard P. Smith, Denise M. Dearing, James C. Smith, Lisa Eckel, and Alan Spector for your unwavering guidance and support throughout my training and career. I would also like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments and to note that Dr. Laura E. Martin created all figure illustrations. This work was supported by NIH R01DC016869 and NSF Career Award IOS 1942291."