Odour-induced mental time travel into the past and future: Do odour cues retain a unique link to our distant past?

Memory

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 930-940

  Miles, Amanda N ^a   Berntsen, Dorthe ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Mental time travel; Odours

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; SMELLING; TIME;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; TIME;

EID: 84858783288     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2011.613847     Document Type: Article

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