ArticleChemosensory perception2012
Processing of Body Odor Signals by the Human Brain.
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- How priming with body odors affects decision speeds in consumer behavior.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Ability of dog owners to identify their dogs by smell.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Sensory Processing in the Autism Spectrum: The Role of Attention to Detail and Somatic Trait Anxiety in the Olfactory Perception of the General Population.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021Article
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- The social odor scale: Development and initial validation of a new scale for the assessment of social odor awareness.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Perception of Social Odor and Gender-Related Differences Investigated Through the Use of Transfer Entropy and Embodied Medium.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Self-Deception about Fecundity in Women : Modeling the Burley Hypothesis.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Sexual Chemosignals: Evidence that Men Process Olfactory Signals of Women's Sexual Arousal.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Article
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Abstract
Brain development in mammals has been proposed to be promoted by successful adaptations to the social complexity as well as to the social and non-social chemical environment. Therefore, the communication via chemosensory signals might have been and might still be a phylogenetically ancient communication channel transmitting evolutionary significant information. In humans, the neuronal underpinnings of the processing of social chemosignals have been investigated in relation to kin recognition, mate choice, the reproductive state and emotional contagion. These studies reveal that human chemosignals are probably not processed within olfactory brain areas but through neuronal relays responsible for the processing of social information. It is concluded that the processing of human social chemosignals resembles the processing of social signals originating from other modalities, except that human social chemosignals are usually communicated without the allocation of attentional resources, that is below the threshold of consciousness. Deviances in the processing of human social chemosignals might be related to the development and maintenance of mental disorders.
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