Time and intensity factors in identification of components of odor mixtures

Chemical Senses

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 777-787

  Frank, Marion E ^a   Goyert, Holly F ^a   Hettinger, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary mixtures; Dynamic olfactory coding; Inhibition; Mixture suppression; Selective adaptation

Indexed keywords

PHENETHYL ALCOHOL; WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; SNIFFING; TIME; TIME PERCEPTION; VANILLA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ODORS; PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 78649383130     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq078     Document Type: Article

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