Working Memory Across Nostrils

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1031-1037

  Yeshurun, Yaara ^a   Dudai, Yadin ^a   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

monorhinal; olfaction; short term memory; verbal; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; SMELLING; SNIFFING; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SMELL;

EID: 54049106219     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012806     Document Type: Article

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