| Abstract: | It was proposed recently that the differential adsorption ofodorants by the olfactory mucus may constitute the first stepin the processing of odor mixtures Laing, D.G. (1988) Ann.NY Acad. Sci., 510, 61–66]. In the present study psychophysicalprocedures were used to determine if there was a relationshipbetween differential adsorption by the olfactory mucus and theperception of odorants of different polarity in binary mixtures.With the eight odor pairs studied, differential adsorption andthe polarity of an odorant were not predictors of how well anodorant would be perceived in a mixture or how it would suppressor enhance the perception of other odorants. |
