ArticlePLoS biology2021
Olfactory perceptual decision-making is biased by motivational state.
Article in PLoS biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Olfactory Capacity and Obesity in Chilean Adolescents.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Effects of Olfactory Valence on the Neural and Behavioral Dynamics of Approach-Avoidance: An EEG Study.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Characterizing Olfactory Brain Responses in Young Infants.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Structural Connectivity between Olfactory Tubercle and Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray Implicated in Human Feeding Behavior.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Leveraging multi-echo EPI to enhance BOLD sensitivity in task-based olfactory fMRI.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- High-precision mapping reveals the structure of odor coding in the human brain.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
- Appetite-regulating hormones modulate odor perception and odor-evoked activity in hypothalamus and olfactory cortices.Chemical senses · 2023Article
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- On the state-dependent nature of odor perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Review
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Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that internal factors influence how we perceive the world. However, it remains unclear whether and how motivational states, such as hunger and satiety, regulate perceptual decision-making in the olfactory domain. Here, we developed a novel behavioral task involving mixtures of food and nonfood odors (i.e., cinnamon bun and cedar; pizza and pine) to assess olfactory perceptual decision-making in humans. Participants completed the task before and after eating a meal that matched one of the food odors, allowing us to compare perception of meal-matched and non-matched odors across fasted and sated states. We found that participants were less likely to perceive meal-matched, but not non-matched, odors as food dominant in the sated state. Moreover, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data revealed neural changes that paralleled these behavioral effects. Namely, odor-evoked fMRI responses in olfactory/limbic brain regions were altered after the meal, such that neural patterns for meal-matched odor pairs were less discriminable and less food-like than their non-matched counterparts. Our findings demonstrate that olfactory perceptual decision-making is biased by motivational state in an odor-specific manner and highlight a potential brain mechanism underlying this adaptive behavior.
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