In search of the structure of human olfactory space

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER 2011, 2011, Pages

  Koulakov, Alexei A ^a   Kolterman, Brian E ^a   Enikolopov, Armen G ^a,b   Rinberg, Dmitry ^c  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Olfaction; Perception; Profiling; Sensory space

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84856135039     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00065     Document Type: Article

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