A Time-Based Account of the Perception of Odor Objects and Valences

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1224-1232

  Olofsson, Jonas K ^a,b   Bowman, Nicholas E ^a   Khatibi, Katherine ^a   Gottfried, Jay A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

emotions; naming; object recognition; olfactory perception; response time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867652215     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612441951     Document Type: Article

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