Odor identification, consistency of label use, olfactory threshold and their relationships to odor memory over the human lifespan

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 337-346

  Lehrner, Johann P ^a,c   Glück, Judith ^a   Laska, Matthias ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0345518021     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.3.337     Document Type: Article

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