Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 196-202

  Anderson, A K ^a,b   Christoff, K ^b   Stappen, I ^c   Panitz, D ^b   Ghahremani, D G ^b   Glover, G ^b   Gabrieli, J D E ^b   Sobel, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE TRACT; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SMELL;

EID: 0037317287     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1001     Document Type: Article

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