Differences in perception of everyday odors: A Japanese-German cross-cultural study

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 31-38

  Ayabe Kanamura, Saho ^a,d   Schicker, Ina ^b   Laska, Matthias ^b   Hudson, Robyn ^b,c   Distel, Hans ^b   Kobayakawa, Tatsu ^d   Saito, Sachiko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SMELLING; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031920138     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.1.31     Document Type: Article

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