A Comparison of Self-Adaptation and Cross-Adaptation to Odorants Presented Singly and in Mixtures
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perception
- Vol. 22 (1) , 103-111
- https://doi.org/10.1068/p220103
Abstract
Fifteen subjects made 450 judgments each by the method of magnitude estimation of dimethyl disulfide and hydrogen sulfide after prior exposure to various mixtures of them. Exposure to the same odorant clearly affected the perceived intensity of it (self-adaptation). By contrast, exposure to the other odorant showed at best a small effect (cross-adaptation). Consistent with this, adaptation to a mixture of the test odorant and another odorant is proportional to the amount of the test odorant in the mixture, and does not exceed that of self-adaptation. These results indicate that olfactory adaptation is specific and that the sense of smell is more robust than generally assumed.Keywords
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