ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Olfactory Stimulation Modulates Visual Perception Without Training.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Exploring the interplay between olfaction and vision: neuroplasticity, rehabilitation, and the therapeutic potential of herbal ingredients.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Review
- Sensory network dysregulation in type 2 diabetes: Linking olfactory, visual, and cognitive function.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2026Article
- Limonene Selectively Modulates Visual Attention Through P300 Suppression: A Comparative Event-Related Potential Study With Lemon Essential Oil.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Olfactory training enhances semantic verbal fluency in healthy older adults, but only for individuals with low baseline performance.Chemical senses · 2025Article
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- Stimulus intensity and temporal configuration interact during bimodal learning and memory in honey bees.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
Considerable research shows that olfactory stimulations affect other modalities in high-level cognitive functions such as emotion. However, little known fact is that olfaction modulates low-level perception of other sensory modalities. Although some studies showed that olfaction had influenced on the other low-level perception, all of them required specific experiences like perceptual training. To test the possibility that olfaction modulates low-level perception without training, we conducted a series of psychophysical and neuroimaging experiments. From the results of a visual task in which participants reported the speed of moving dots, we found that participants perceived the slower motions with a lemon smell and the faster motions with a vanilla smell, without any specific training. In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, brain activities in the visual cortices [V1 and human middle temporal area (hMT)] changed based on the type of olfactory stimulation. Our findings provide us with the first direct evidence that olfaction modulates low-level visual perception without training, thereby indicating that olfactory-visual effect is not an acquired behavior but an innate behavior. The present results show us with a new crossmodal effect between olfaction and vision, and bring a unique opportunity to reconsider some fundamental roles of olfactory function.
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