Odour-evoked autobiographical memories: Psychological investigations of Proustian phenomena

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 111-116

  Chu, Simon ^a   Downes, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SMELLING; STIMULATION;

EID: 0033953394     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.111     Document Type: Review

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