Demystifying wine expertise: Olfactory threshold, perceptual skill and semantic memory in expert and novice wine judges

Chemical Senses

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 747-755

  Parr, Wendy V ^a   Heatherbell, David ^a   White, K Geoffrey ^b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SKILL; VERBAL MEMORY; WINE;

EID: 0036798508     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/27.8.747     Document Type: Article

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