Olfactory Imagery and Repetition Priming: The Effect of Odor Naming and Imagery Ability

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 397-408

  Tomiczek, Caroline ^a   Stevenson, Richard J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Imagery; Odor; Olfaction; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SMELLING; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SMELL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 68649103319     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.6.397     Document Type: Article

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