Perceptual learning in olfaction: Professional wine tasters versus controls

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1065-1070

  Bende, Mats ^a   Nordin, Steven ^b,c  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Identification; Odor; Perception; Psychophysical; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS; TASTE; TRAINING; WINE;

EID: 0030821644     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00251-5     Document Type: Article

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