Blind smell: Brain activation induced by an undetected air-borne chemical

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-217

  Sobel, Noam ^a   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^a   Hartley, Catherine A ^a   Desmond, John E ^a   Glover, Gary H ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Chemical senses; Functional imaging; Odour detection; Olfaction; Pheromones

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHEROMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032924603     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.2.209     Document Type: Article

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