Carbon chain length and the stimulus problem in olfaction

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 110-113

  Boesveldt, Sanne ^a   Olsson, Mats J ^b   Lundström, Johan N ^a,b,c  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Discrimination; Mixture; Olfaction; Perception

Indexed keywords

BUTANOL; PENTANOL; PROPANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 77955843232     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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