Measuring smells

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 438-444

  Haddad, Rafi ^a   Lapid, Hadas ^a   Harel, David ^a   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 55249099526     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.09.007     Document Type: Review

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