The effects of cue distinctiveness on odor-based context-dependent memory

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-380

  Herz, Rachel S ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; SENSORY STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030953712     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03211293     Document Type: Article

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