Odorant quality perception: A metric individual differences approach

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1121-1129

  Kurtz, Daniel B ^a,b   Sheehe, Paul R ^a   Kent, Paul F ^a   White, Theresa L ^a   Hornung, David E ^a   Wright, Herbert N ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SMELLING DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 0034223323     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212093     Document Type: Article

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