Color enhances orthonasal olfactory intensity and reduces retronasal olfactory intensity

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 643-649

  Koza, Brian J ^a   Cilmi, Anna ^a   Dolese, Melissa ^a   Zellner, Debra A ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodal interaction; Orthonasal odor; Retronasal odor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH; NERVE STIMULATION; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY NERVE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SMELLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 27244450976     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji057     Document Type: Article

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