Perceptual and Mental Mixtures in Odor and in Taste: Are There Similarities and Differences between Experiments or between Modalities? Reply to Schifferstein (1997)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1588-1593

  Cain, William S ^a,c   Algom, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; NOTE; ODOR; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECALL; TASTE;

ATTENTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MENTAL RECALL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; TASTE;

EID: 0031255191     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.23.5.1588     Document Type: Review

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