Assessment of odor annoyance and its relationship to stimulus concentration and odor intensity

Chemical Senses

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 113-117

  Lidén, Edvard ^a   Nordin, Steven ^b   Högman, Lennart ^c   Ulander, Arne ^a   Deniz, Fuat ^a   Gidlöf Gunnarsson, Anita ^a,c  

^a ÖREBRO MEDICAL CENTRE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SMELLING;

EID: 0031895363     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/23.1.113     Document Type: Article

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