Olfactory conditioning of positive performance in humans

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-71

  Chu, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Classical conditioning; Emotion; Odor; Self esteem; Success

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; ODOR; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF ESTEEM; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; SELF CONCEPT; SMELL; UNDERACHIEVEMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 38949207470     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm063     Document Type: Article

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