Emotional reactivity to odors: Olfactory sensitivity and the span of emotional evaluation separate the genders

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 456, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 74-79

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Gender differences; Hedonic; Olfaction; Smell

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMELLING;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749105108     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.096     Document Type: Article

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