Neural activity at the human olfactory epithelium reflects olfactory perception

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1455-1461

  Lapid, Hadas ^a   Shushan, Sagit ^a,b   Plotkin, Anton ^a   Voet, Hillary ^c   Roth, Yehudah ^b   Hummel, Thomas ^d   Schneidman, Elad ^a   Sobel, Noam ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; ACETIC ACID; BORNYL ACETATE; BUTYRALDEHYDE; HYDROXYCITRONELLAL; LACTIC ACID; NEROL; OCTANOL; PENTYL ACETATE; PROPANOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PLEASURE; REACTION TIME; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80055004667     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2926     Document Type: Article

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