Cross-cultural administration of an odor discrimination test

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 85-90

  Sorokowska, Agnieszka ^a,b   Sorokowski, Piotr ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Discrimination test; Sniffin' Sticks; Tsimane'

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SMELLING; SNIFFIN STICKS TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84902361970     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-014-9169-0     Document Type: Article

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