Perception of everyday odors - Correlation between intensity, familiarity and strength of hedonic judgement

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-199

  Distel, Hans ^a   Ayabe Kanamura, Saho ^b   Martínez Gómez, Margarita ^c   Schicker, Ina ^a   Kobayakawa, Tatsu ^d   Saito, Sachiko ^d   Hudson, Robyn ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^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; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032918931     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.2.191     Document Type: Article

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