Passive perceptual learning in relation to wine: Short-term recognition and verbal description

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Hughson, Angus L ^a   Boakes, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Labelling; Perceptual learning; Short term recognition; Verbal overshadowing; Wine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TASTE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WINE;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; LEARNING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASTE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WINE;

EID: 58149337508     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802214890     Document Type: Article

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