Making sense of scents: The colour and texture of odours

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 655-677

  Spector, Ferrinne ^a   Maurer, Daphne ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

colour; Cross modal; multisensory; olfactory; perception; texture

Indexed keywords

CROSS-MODAL; JOINT INFLUENCE; MULTISENSORY; NEURAL ORGANIZATION; OLFACTORY; PROBABILITY STATISTIC; SENSORY SYSTEM;

COLOR; SENSORY PERCEPTION; TEXTURES;

ODORS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874840654     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847612X648800     Document Type: Article

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