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Power law exponents for perceived and remembered pyridine smell were obtained. The result indicated that the size of the memory exponent obtained was about 37% larger than that of the perceived exponent for a pyridine smell. The data can be explained in terms of overestimation and underestimation at the higher and lower ends of the stimulus range employed during memory-retrieval processes. The stimulus, an unpleasant pyridine odor, has highly emotionally involved memory-coding properties and appears to be over- and underestimated at the upper and lower extremes of the stimulus range, respectively, during memory processing.
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Part of the paper was presented at the23rd ICP congress at Acapulco, 1984. This work was supported in part by Grant No. 59510073 from Ministry of Education, Japan.
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Osaka, N. Memory psychophysics for pyridine smell scale. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 25, 56–57 (1987). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330077
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