Sentence examples for a weak odor from inspiring English sources

For example, if a weak odor is paired with a strong taste and the pairing is followed by gastrointestinal distress, the taste magnifies the sensitivity of the odor as a signal (Rusiniak et al. 1979).

While the chemosensory stimuli used in the brain imaging studies were perceived to have a weak odor, most of the participants in the present experiment could not detect an odor when presented with the sweat samples.

DSF is clear and colorless, with a weak odor of ammonia.

Androstenol was deemed to be a weaker odor than OO, (Table 2), suggesting that the OO-specific activation in the amygdala and piriform cortex may be a reflection of intensity.

It may be noted that such an extremely weak odor stimulus can reliably elicit autonomic and motor responses in sleeping infants when in contrast strong odorants do not alter adults' sleep states [27], [28].

An immediate weak odor detection of 3-MF could be seen among some of the subjects, but not all.

Although M. leptocephala usually has a weaker alkaline odor and a more fragile stem, the strength of the odor of M. alcalina is also quite variable, so differences in odor cannot be used as the sole distinguishing characteristic.

On the contrary, odor-stimuli during SWS produced only weak odor-evoked responses in all frequency bands.

Although this signifies that the piriform cortex is hyporesponsive to odors while in SWS in that odors do not induce robust LFP oscillations, weak odor-evoked activity is still likely to occur [35], [36].

Animals spent significantly more time near the weakest odor, compared to the strongest (LSD, Fisher's least significant difference, p = 0.0002).

A general emerging theme is that odors are coded in a weak combinatorial manner, where some receptors and sensory neurons may be more important than others.