The human sense of smell: Are we better than we think?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Shepherd, Gordon M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOSE CAVITY; ODOR; ODOR CONTROL; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SENSE ORGAN; SMELLING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHEMORECEPTOR; COGNITION; LANGUAGE; NOSE; OLFACTORY NERVE; PARANASAL SINUS; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHEMORECEPTORS; COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NOSE; ODORS; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PARANASAL SINUSES; PERCEPTION; SENSATION; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 19344370877     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020146     Document Type: Review

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