Congruent sound can modulate odor pleasantness

Chemical Senses

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 215-228

  Seo, Han Seok ^a   Lohse, Franziska ^b   Luckett, Curtis R ^a   Hummel, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DRESDEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Audition; Congruency; Cross modal association; Odor familiarity; Odor identification; Odor pleasantness; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; CONGRUENCY; CROSS-MODAL ASSOCIATION; ODOR FAMILIARITY; ODOR IDENTIFICATION; ODOR PLEASANTNESS; OLFACTION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CINNAMOMUM ZEYLANICUM; CITRUS SINENSIS; EUGENIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND;

EID: 84894085356     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjt070     Document Type: Article

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