Switch and bait: Probing the discriminative basis of odor identification via recognition memory

Chemical Senses

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-44

  Cain, William S ^a   Potts, Bonnie C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; ODORS; SMELL;

ALLIUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0030027264     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/21.1.35     Document Type: Article

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