Body position-dependent shift in odor percept present only for perithreshold odors

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-33

  Lundström, Johan N ^a,b   Boyle, Julie A ^a   Jones Gotman, Marilyn ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Posture; Sensitivity; Sniffing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY POSITION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SITTING; SMELLING; SNIFFING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPINE POSITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

1-BUTANOL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODORS; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; POSTURE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMELL; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 38949156141     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm059     Document Type: Article

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