Sniff your way to clarity: The case of olfactory imagery

Chemosensory Perception

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 242-246

  Arshamian, Artin ^a,b   Olofsson, Jonas K ^a,b,c   Jönsson, Fredrik U ^a,b   Larsson, Maria ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Stockholm Brain Institute   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Imagery; Olfaction; Sensorimotor; Sniffing; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897610471     PISSN: 19365802     EISSN: 19365810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-008-9035-z     Document Type: Article

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