Chemical Senses Advance Access originally published online on November 20, 2007
Chemical Senses 2008 33(2):223-224; doi:10.1093/chemse/bjm076
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Higher Sensitivity to Perithreshold Odors when Sitting than when Supine May Be Correlated with Postural Differences in Locus Coeruleus Activity
Center of Space Medicine Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Correspondence to be sent to: Darren M. Lipnicki, Zentrum für Weltraummedizin Berlin, Arnimallee 22,14195 Berlin, Germany. e-mail: darrenlipnicki@hotmail.com
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Lundström et al. (2007)
report an effect of posture on perithreshold odor sensitivity, which they found to be higher when sitting than when lying down (consistent with earlier work described in Lundstrom et al. 2006). The explanation for this result focused on cognitive mechanisms, with support seen in there being