Sniffing longer rather than stronger to maintain olfactory detection threshold

Chemical Senses

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-8

  Sobel, Noam ^a   Khan, Rehan M ^a   Hartley, Catherine A ^a   Sullivan, Edith V ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SNIFFING;

EID: 0033953536     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/25.1.1     Document Type: Article

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