Flavor and the formation of category-specific processing in Olfaction

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-146

  Small, Dana M ^a,b,c  

^a JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain Specific Processing; Flavor Perception; Gustation; Insula; Multi Sensory Integration; Neural Binding; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349186344     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-008-9015-3     Document Type: Article

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