Is trilled smell possible? How the structure of olfaction determines the phenomenology of smell

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 59-95

  Cooke, E D ^b   Myin, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NONE

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