Test-retest reliability and validity of the sniffin' TOM odor memory test

Chemical Senses

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 173-179

  Croy, Ilona ^a   Zehner, Cora ^a   Larsson, Maria ^b   Zucco, Gesualdo M ^c   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assessment; Human; Memory; Olfaction nose; Psychophysics; Smell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SNIFFING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEST OF ODOR MEMORY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY; ADOLESCENT; AGING; CHILD; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ODOR; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ODORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84935081551     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bju069     Document Type: Article

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