Gender and handedness effects on hedonicity of laterally presented odours

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 272-281

  Dijksterhuis, Garmt B ^a   Møller, Per ^a   Bredie, Wender L P ^a   Rasmussen, Gudny ^a   Martens, Magni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Emotion; Handedness; Hemispheric lateralisation; Nostril differences; Odour hedonicity; Odour perception; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX FACTORS; SMELL;

EID: 0036925777     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-2626(02)00511-0     Document Type: Article

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