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Perceptual Interactions in Complex Odor Mixtures
Gérard CoureaudNoëlle BenoBenoist SchaalThibaut DosneClaire ChabanetThierry Thomas-danguinAdeline ChambaultCharlotte Sindingsubject
genetic structuresOdorHuman studiesComputer sciencemusculoskeletal neural and ocular physiologySpeech recognitionPerceptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectSortingbehavioral disciplines and activitiespsychological phenomena and processesTask (project management)media_commondescription
The perception of everyday odors relies on elemental or configural processing of complex mixtures of odorants. Theoretically, the configural processing of a mixture could lead to the perception of a single specific odor for the mixture; however, such a type of perception has hardly been proven in human studies. Here, we report the results of a sorting task demonstrating that a six-component mixture carries an odor clearly distinct from the odors of its components. These results suggest a blending effect of individual components’ odors in mixtures containing more than three odorants.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-01 |