Cross-modal integration between odors and abstract symbols

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 478, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-178

  Seo, Han Seok ^a   Arshamian, Artin ^a,b   Schemmer, Kerstin ^c   Scheer, Ingeborg ^d   Sander, Thorsten ^c   Ritter, Guido ^c   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MÜNSTER UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d Dasign GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstract symbol; Congruency; Olfactory event related potentials; Vision olfaction integration

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SMELLING; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

1-BUTANOL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; CHILD; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHENYLETHYL ALCOHOL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953618090     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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