The 40-item Monell Extended Sniffin' Sticks Identification Test (MONEX-40)

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-16

  Freiherr, Jessica ^a   Gordon, Amy R ^a,d   Alden, Eva C ^a   Ponting, Andrea L ^a   Hernandez, Monica F ^b   Boesveldt, Sanne ^a   Lundström, Johan N ^a,c,d  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Reliability; Smell; Validity

Indexed keywords

40 ITEM MONELL EXTENDED SNIFFIN STICKS IDENTIFICATION TEST; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855796780     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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