Latency and accuracy of discriminations of odor quality between binary mixtures and their components

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 247-265

  Wise, Paul M ^a   Cain, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

EID: 0034044483     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.3.247     Document Type: Article

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