Olfactory lateralization: Odor intensity but not the hedonic estimation is lateralized

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-232

  Thuerauf, Norbert ^a   Gossler, Andrea ^a   Lunkenheimer, Jens ^a   Lunkenheimer, Birgit ^a   Maihöfner, Christian ^a   Bleich, Stefan ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Markovic, Katrin ^a   Reulbach, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Hedonic; Lateralization; Olfaction; Smell

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CARTILAGE; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SMELLING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; REWARD; SMELL;

EID: 43849096592     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.038     Document Type: Article

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