Influences of feedback and ascending and descending trial presentations on perithreshold odor detection performance

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 523-526

  Doty, Richard L ^a   Diez, Jeffrey M ^a   Turnacioglu, Sinan ^a   McKeown, Donald A ^a   Gledhill, John ^a   Armstrong, Kelsy ^a   Lee, W William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback; Method of limits; Phenyl ethyl alcohol; Psychophysics; Threshold

Indexed keywords

PHENETHYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 3042660377     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/28.6.523     Document Type: Article

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