Auditory-olfactory integration: Congruent or pleasant sounds amplify odor pleasantness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-309

  Seo, Han Seok ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cue; Auditory olfactory integration; Congruency; Odor intensity; Odor pleasantness; The halo horns effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79951783964     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq129     Document Type: Article

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