The value of identity: Olfactory notes on orbitofrontal cortex function

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1239, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 138-148

  Gottfried, Jay A ^a   Zelano, Christina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Object identity; Olfactory perception; Orbitofrontal cortex; Predictive coding; Reward value

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; SENSORY EVALUATION; SMELLING; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

EID: 83155161089     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06268.x     Document Type: Article

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