Difficulty in evoking odor images: The role of odor naming

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 578-589

  Stevenson, Richard J ^a   Case, Trevor I ^a   Mahmut, Mehmet ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; RECALL; SMELLING;

EID: 34447324671     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193296     Document Type: Article

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