Changes in Odor Sweetness Resulting from Implicit Learning of a Simultaneous Odor-Sweetness Association: An Example of Learned Synesthesia

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 113-132

  Stevenson, Richard J ^b   Boakes, Robert A ^b   Prescott, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Awareness; Implicit learning; Odor; Simultaneous conditioning; Synesthesia; Taste

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000745856     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/lmot.1998.0996     Document Type: Article

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