Odor similarity does not influence the time needed for odor processing

Chemical Senses

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 781-789

  Ditzen, Mathias ^a   Evers, Jan Felix ^a   Galizia, C Giovanni ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Honeybee; Odor concentrations; Odor mixtures; Olfaction; Response time

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SMELLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BEE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TIME;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

1-NONANOL; FATTY ALCOHOL; LINALOOL; NONANOL; TERPENE;

ANIMALS; BEES; FATTY ALCOHOLS; MONOTERPENES; ODORS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3342887910     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjg070     Document Type: Article

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