How big is the gap between olfactory detection and recognition of aliphatic aldehydes?

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 806-812

  Laska, Matthias ^a   Ringh, Anna ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; OXOACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION;

ACIDS, ALDEHYDIC; ADULT; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955284170     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.3.806     Document Type: Article

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