ReviewFrontiers in psychology2014
Time to smell: a cascade model of human olfactory perception based on response-time (RT) measurement.
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- Cross-modal impacts of olfactory perception and individual differences in emotional responses to odors modulate hedonic evaluations of visual scenes.Chemical senses · 2026Article
- Integrating olfactory assessments in consciousness disorders: methodologies and therapeutic potential.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Review
- Smells like … no evidence that odors influence the attentional blink.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Human olfactory perception embeds fine temporal resolution within a single sniff.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Olfactory Categorization Is Shaped by a Transmodal Cortical Network for Evaluating Perceptual Predictions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Olfactory neurofeedback: current state and possibilities for further development.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Why human olfaction should not be modeled on theories and tasks of vision.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Testing Links of Food-Related Olfactory Perception to Peripheral Ghrelin and Leptin Concentrations.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Background stimulus delays detection of target stimulus in a familiar odor-odor combination.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Optimization of Modulation Methods for Solenoid Valves to Realize an Odor Generation System.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- An in-depth review of the methods, findings, and theories associated with odor-evoked autobiographical memory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Review
- Olfactory Context Dependent Memory: Direct Presentation of Odorants.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2018Article
- The muted sense: neurocognitive limitations of olfactory language.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2015Review
- Nonlinear response speedup in bimodal visual-olfactory object identification.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
- A designated odor-language integration system in the human brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Article
- Olfactory consciousness across disciplines.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
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Abstract
The timing of olfactory behavioral decisions may provide an important source of information about how the human olfactory-perceptual system is organized. This review integrates results from olfactory response-time (RT) measurements from a perspective of mental chronometry. Based on these findings, a new cascade model of human olfaction is presented. Results show that main perceptual decisions are executed with high accuracy within about 1~s of sniff onset. The cascade model proposes the existence of distinct processing stages within this brief time-window. According to the cascade model, different perceptual features become accessible to the perceiver at different time-points, and the output of earlier processing stages provides the input for later processing stages. The olfactory cascade starts with detecting the odor, which is followed by establishing an odor object. The odor object, in turn, triggers systems for determining odor valence and edibility. Evidence for the cascade model comes from studies showing that RTs for odor valence and edibility assessment are predicted by the shorter RTs needed to establish the odor object. Challenges for future research include innovative task designs for olfactory RT experiments and the integration of the behavioral processing sequence into the underlying cortical processes using complementary RT measures and neuroimaging methods.
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