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THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL ON ODOR DETECTION
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1975
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Blood Alcohol LevelHealth SciencesBehavioral NeuroscienceAlcohol DependencePhysiologyOlfactory PerceptionSignal Detection ExperimentHuman SubjectsAlcohol AbuseNeuroscienceSensometricsSensory ScienceElectronic NoseSocial SciencesOlfaction
A signal detection experiment showed that human subjects whose blood alcohol level was approximately 70 mg% were more sensitive to a ‘burnt’ odor (guaicol) than control subjects. The most plausible explanation for this finding seems to be that alcohol affects the accessibility of odorous molecules at the olfactory epithelium.