Proportion of odorants impacts the configural versus elemental perception of a binary blending mixture in newborn rabbits

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 693-700

  Coureaud, Gérard ^a   Gibaud, David ^a   Le Berre, Elodie ^a   Schaal, Benoist ^a   Thomas Danguin, Thierry ^a  

^a CENTRE DES SCIENCES DU GOÛT ET DE L ALIMENTATION   (France)

Author keywords

Configural perception; Neonates; Odor mixture; Odorant proportion; Olfaction; Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Indexed keywords

DEODORANT AGENT; ETHYLMALTOL; ISOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CODING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUB; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RABBITS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 80053204014     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjr049     Document Type: Article

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