ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2013
Effects of odor on emotion, with implications.
Review in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.
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- Psychophysiological Responses of Cut Flower Fragrances as an Olfactory Stimulation by Measurement of Electroencephalogram in Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Pleasant olfactory cues can reduce cigarette craving.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019Trial
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- Reviewing Physiological Measures of Implicit Consumer Response to Food.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Shiso (Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Neurological Responses to Scented Insects via Olfactory Stimulation: A Controlled fMRI Study.Insects · 2026Article
- Causal Effects of Enhanced Parenting on Resting-State Graph Properties of Adolescents at Risk for Maltreatment.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- The Olfactory Origins of Affective Processing: A Neurobiological Synthesis Through the Walla Emotion Model.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The scent of serenity: lessons learned from olfactory-enhanced virtual reality for stress reduction in isolated and confined environments.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Skin-Integrated Soft Wearable XR Interfaces for Seamless and Realistic User Experience.Chemical reviews · 2025Review
- Mapping the Olfactory Brain: A Systematic Review of Structural and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Changes Following COVID-19 Smell Loss.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Exploring the Relationship Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Olfactory Function.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- What emotions are elicited by smells in Japanese people? Emotional measurement using a universal scale in Japanese.PloS one · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal regulation by downstream genes ofFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Article
- Synaptic Connectivity and Electrophysiological Properties of the Nucleus of the Lateral Olfactory Tract.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The odour of an unfamiliar stressed or relaxed person affects dogs' responses to a cognitive bias test.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Nocturnal exposure to a preferred ambient scent does not affect dream emotionality or post-sleep core affect valence in young adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Time-sensitive changes in the maternal brain and their influence on mother-child attachment.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Fine-grained features characterize hippocampal and amygdaloid change pattern in Parkinson's disease and discriminate cognitive-deficit subtype.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2024Article
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Abstract
The sense of smell is found widely in the animal kingdom. Human and animal studies show that odor perception is modulated by experience and/or physiological state (such as hunger), and that some odors can arouse emotion, and can lead to the recall of emotional memories. Further, odors can influence psychological and physiological states. Individual odorants are mapped via gene-specified receptors to corresponding glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, which directly projects to the piriform cortex and the amygdala without a thalamic relay. The odors to which a glomerulus responds reflect the chemical structure of the odorant. The piriform cortex and the amygdala both project to the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) which with the amygdala is involved in emotion and associative learning, and to the entorhinal/hippocampal system which is involved in long-term memory including episodic memory. Evidence that some odors can modulate emotion and cognition is described, and the possible implications for the treatment of psychological problems, for example in reducing the effects of stress, are considered.
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