Odor perception and odor awareness in congenital blindness

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 206-209

  Beaulieu Lefebvre, Mathilde ^a   Schneider, Fabien C ^b,c   Kupers, Ron ^a   Ptito, Maurice ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Blindness; Crossmodal plasticity; Detection threshold; Odor awareness; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

FRAGRANCE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONS OF THE SENSE ORGANS AND THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; ODOR; ODOR DETECTION THRESHOLD; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; SNIFFING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951681418     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2010.12.014     Document Type: Article

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