Perceptual and sensorimotor differences between "good" and "poor" olfactory mental imagers

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1170, Issue , 2009, Pages 333-337

  Rouby, Catherine ^a   Bourgeat, Fanny ^a   Rinck, Fanny ^a   Poncelet, Johan ^a   Bensafi, Moustafa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Edibility; Mental imagery; Olfaction; Pleasantness; Sniffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 68649117889     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.03915.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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