Hemispheric lateralization in the processing of odor pleasantness versus odor names

Chemical Senses

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 691-695

  Herz, Rachel S ^b   McCall, Catherine ^a   Cahill, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SMELLING;

EID: 0032698183     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/24.6.691     Document Type: Article

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