ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
A designated odor-language integration system in the human brain.
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- Spatiotemporal dynamics of odor representations in the human brain revealed by EEG decoding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- The human olfactory bulb processes odor valence representation and cues motor avoidance behavior.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Neural processing of olfactory-related words in subjects with congenital and acquired olfactory dysfunction.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Characterizing Olfactory Function in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Sensory Processing Dysfunction.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Olfactory Influences on Visual Categorization: Behavioral and ERP Evidence.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- Factors associated with odour identification in older Indonesian and white Australian adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2020Article
- An Overprotective Nose? Implicit Bias Is Positively Related to Individual Differences in Body Odor Disgust Sensitivity.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Human Apolipoprotein E Genotype Differentially Affects Olfactory Behavior and Sensory Physiology in Mice.Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Olfactory modulation of colour working memory: How does citrus-like smell influence the memory of orange colour?PloS one · 2018Article
- APOE-ɛ4 effects on longitudinal decline in olfactory and non-olfactory cognitive abilities in middle-aged and old adults.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Odors are surprisingly difficult to name, but the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is poorly understood. In experiments using event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated the physiological basis of odor naming with a paradigm where olfactory and visual object cues were followed by target words that either matched or mismatched the cue. We hypothesized that word processing would not only be affected by its semantic congruency with the preceding cue, but would also depend on the cue modality (olfactory or visual). Performance was slower and less precise when linking a word to its corresponding odor than to its picture. The ERP index of semantic incongruity (N400), reflected in the comparison of nonmatching versus matching target words, was more constrained to posterior electrode sites and lasted longer on odor-cue (vs picture-cue) trials. In parallel, fMRI cross-adaptation in the right orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and the left anterior temporal lobe (ATL) was observed in response to words when preceded by matching olfactory cues, but not by matching visual cues. Time-series plots demonstrated increased fMRI activity in OFC and ATL at the onset of the odor cue itself, followed by response habituation after processing of a matching (vs nonmatching) target word, suggesting that predictive perceptual representations in these regions are already established before delivery and deliberation of the target word. Together, our findings underscore the modality-specific anatomy and physiology of object identification in the human brain.
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