Changes in taste intensity perception following anterior temporal lobe removal in humans

Chemical Senses

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 425-432

  Small, Dana M ^a,b   Zatorre, Robert J ^a   Jones Gotman, Marilyn ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VISION;

EID: 0035013846     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/26.4.425     Document Type: Article

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