A comparison between the human sense of smell and neural activity in the olfactory bulb of rats

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 91-105

  Soh, Zu ^a   Saito, Maki ^a   Kurita, Yuichi ^a   Takiguchi, Noboru ^b   Ohtake, Hisao ^c   Tsuji, Toshio ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glomerular response; Human odor perception; Machine learning; Rats; Sensory test

Indexed keywords

ANTHRANILIC ACID METHYL ESTER; CITRONELLOL; DEODORANT AGENT; GERANYL ACETATE; JASMONE; LIALOOL; NEROL; PHENYLACETIC ACID METHYL ESTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELLING;

GLOMERULAR RESPONSE; HUMAN ODOR PERCEPTION; MACHINE LEARNING; RATS; SENSORY TEST;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CYBERNETICS; DEOXYGLUCOSE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; RATS; SMELL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892489404     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt057     Document Type: Article

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