Chemical Senses 20: 639-643,
© 1995
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Cognitive Processes in Odorant Mixture Assessment
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK
Correspondence to be sent to: D.A. Booth, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TT, UK
Comparison of models of odor interaction by Cain and his colleagues (1995) is a turning point in assessment of the strengths of smell of mixtures of odorants. Their paper provides the best empirical comparison to date of models of (olfactory) binary mixture intensities and combines this analysis with a cogent critique of the whole tradition of mixture psychophysics. This commentary on their paper argues that their critique is not radical enough. Chem. Senses 20: 639643, 1995.