Influence of background noise on the performance in the odor sensitivity task: Effects of noise type and extraversion

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 89-97

  Seo, Han Seok ^a,b   Hähner, Antje ^b   Gudziol, Volker ^b   Scheibe, Mandy ^b   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory olfactory integration; Background noise; Eysenck Personality Questionnaire; Introversion extraversion; Odor sensitivity task; Verbal noise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTROVERSION; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866357043     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3222-5     Document Type: Article

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