Impact of health-risk perception on odor perception and cognitive performance

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 190-197

  Nordin, Steven ^a   Claeson, Anna Sara ^a   Andersson, Maria ^a   Sommar, Louise ^a   Andrée, Jakob ^a   Lundqvist, Klas ^a   Andersson, Linus ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Indoor air quality; Information bias; Odor hedonics; Odor intensity; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893877983     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-013-9153-0     Document Type: Article

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