Unconscious odor detection could not be due to odor itself

Brain Research

Volumn 1002, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 51-54

  Jacquot, Laurence ^a   Monnin, Julie ^a   Brand, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomic activation; Odor; Olfactory system; Threshold detection; Trigeminal system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SMELLING; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 1342321768     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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