ArticlePloS one2014
Does human body odor represent a significant and rewarding social signal to individuals high in social openness?
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- Scent of a Woman-Or Man: Odors Influence Person Knowledge.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Human olfactory dysfunction: causes and consequences.Cell and tissue research · 2021Review
- Sex differences in own and other body perception.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- The Design Matters: How to Detect Neural Correlates of Baby Body Odors.Frontiers in neurology · 2018Article
- The role of social relationships in the link between olfactory dysfunction and mortality.PloS one · 2018Article
- Empathic Cognitions Affected by Undetectable Social Chemosignals: An EEG Study on Visually Evoked Empathy for Pain in an Auditory and Chemosensory Context.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Olfaction as a marker for depression.Journal of neurology · 2017Review
- The Influence of Menstrual Cycle and Androstadienone on Female Stress Reactions: An fMRI Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Across a wide variety of domains, experts differ from novices in their response to stimuli linked to their respective field of expertise. It is currently unknown whether similar patterns can be observed with regard to social expertise. The current study therefore focuses on social openness, a central social skill necessary to initiate social contact. Human body odors were used as social cues, as they inherently signal the presence of another human being. Using functional MRI, hemodynamic brain responses to body odors of women reporting a high (n = 14) or a low (n = 12) level of social openness were compared. Greater activation within the inferior frontal gyrus and the caudate nucleus was observed in high socially open individuals compared to individuals low in social openness. With the inferior frontal gyrus being a crucial part of the human mirror neuron system, and the caudate nucleus being implicated in social reward, it is discussed whether human body odor might constitute more of a significant and rewarding social signal to individuals high in social openness compared to individuals low in social openness process.
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