Attention and the detectability of weak taste stimuli

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-29

  Marks, Lawrence E ^a,b   Wheeler, Mary E ^a,b  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASTE; VISION;

EID: 0031941830     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.1.19     Document Type: Article

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