From molecule to mind: An integrative perspective on odor intensity

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 443-454

  Mainland, Joel D ^a,b   Lundström, Johan N ^a,b,c   Reisert, Johannes ^a   Lowe, Graeme ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPISODIC MEMORY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULE; MURINAE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE TRACT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ODOR INTENSITY; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY CORTEX; OLFACTORY EPITHELIUM; OLFACTORY MEMORY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL AND TASTE PARAMETERS; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SMELLING;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SMELL;

EID: 84905117530     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.05.005     Document Type: Review

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