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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2018

The Design Matters: How to Detect Neural Correlates of Baby Body Odors.

Laura Schäfer, Thomas Hummel, Ilona Croy

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06058208 (The Effect of Baby Smell and Visual Stimulus Program on Mothers' Cortical and Breast Oxygenation, Milk Amount and Mother-Infant Attachment), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT06058208 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of Baby Smell and Visual Stimulus Program on Mothers' Cortical and Breast Oxygenation, Milk Amount and Mother-Infant Attachment: Randomized Controlled Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorSelcuk UniversityRan2022 to 2023Enrolled54ConditionsCesarean Delivery Affecting Fetus, Preterm LaborArmsOlfactory stimulation, Visual stimulation
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Past, Present, and Future of Human Chemical Communication Research.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025
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  3. The scent of cuteness-neural signatures of infant body odors.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laura SchäferDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Thomas HummelSmell and Taste Clinic, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Ilona CroyDepartment of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
TU Dresden · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of body odors is challenging due to methodological obstacles of odor presentation in the scanner and low intensity of body odors. Hence, few imaging studies investigated neural responses to body odors. Those differ in design characteristics and have shown varying results. Evidence on central processing of baby body odors has been scarce but might be important in order to detect neural correlates of bonding in mothers. A suitable paradigm for investigating perception of baby body odors has still to be established. We compared neural responses to baby body odors in a new to a conventional block design in a sample of ten normosmic mothers. For the new

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baby odorbody odorbody odor perceptionfMRI designolfactionolfactory fMRI

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