No effects of handedness on passive processing of olfactory stimuli: An FMRI study

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-26

  Lübke, Katrin ^a,b   Gottschlich, Marie ^b   Gerber, Johannes ^b   Pause, Bettina M ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemisphere; Lateralization; Olfaction; Smell

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE; PHENETHYL ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SMELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84858706230     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-011-9115-3     Document Type: Article

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