Evaluating the 'labeled magnitude scale' for measuring sensations of taste and smell

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 323-334

  Green, Barry G ^a,b   Dalton, Pamela ^a   Cowart, Beverly ^a   Shaffer, Greg ^a   Rankin, Krystyna ^a   Higgins, Jennifer ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; TASTE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION;

ACETIC ACID; ADULT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMELL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE;

EID: 0029984271     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.3.323     Document Type: Article

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