Sex differences in chemosensation: Sensory or emotional?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Ohla, Kathrin ^a   Lundström, Johan N ^a,b,c  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; ERPs; GSR; Olfactory; Sex differences; Trigeminal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933674657     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00607     Document Type: Article

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