Outline of a theory of olfactory processing and its relevance to humans

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30 SUPPL. 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Shepherd, Gordon M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavor mechanisms; Molecular determinants; Odor maps; Olfactory glomeruli; Olfactory microcircuits; Olfactory receptor genes

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CHEMICAL CUE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FLAVOR; HUMAN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; ODOR; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; OLFACTORY TRACT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33644500173     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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