Complex mixture discrimination and the role of contaminants

Chemical Senses

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 533-540

  Lovitz, A M ^a   Sloan, A M ^a   Rennaker, R L ^a   Wilson, D A ^b,c  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Odor mixture; Odor object; Odor sampling; Pattern completion; Sniffing; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG CONTAMINATION; MALE; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TIME FACTORS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84863866627     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs006     Document Type: Article

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