ReviewAnnual review of psychology2024
What Does the Human Olfactory System Do, and How Does It Do It?
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- Theta oscillations are an organizational unit of odor processing in the olfactory bulb.Science advances · 2026Article
- Cross-modal impacts of olfactory perception and individual differences in emotional responses to odors modulate hedonic evaluations of visual scenes.Chemical senses · 2026Article
- Associations of forest vs. urban environmental exposure with well-being and nasal microbiome composition: An exploratory pilot study.Environmental research · 2026Article
- Human pairs show collective benefit in olfactory perception despite individual differences and verbal limits.iScience · 2026Article
- Intranasal VACV VR-1354 infection impairs chemosensory function and induces olfactory bulb neuroinflammation in mice.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Physiopathology of nasal and ecnomotopic olfactory receptors: focus on molecular pathways and potential pharmacological modulation.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Effect of mucosal incision on postoperative olfactory function in the endoscopic transsphenoidal approach to pituitary adenoma.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Smell Is Emotion.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- One Biology and the Status of Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
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- Impaired olfactory function in substance use disorder.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Graph Neural Networks vs. Traditional QSAR: A Comprehensive Comparison for Multi-Label Molecular Odor Prediction.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Nasal respiration modulates pain perception via the olfactory Bulb-Anterior cingulate cortex circuit.iScience · 2025Article
- Visual search performance depends on the congruency of olfactory sensations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- IMPAIRED OLFACTORY FUNCTION IN SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Aroma Formation, Release, and Perception in Aquatic Products Processing: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Exploring LinearJournal of medicinal chemistry · 2025Article
- The Bulb, the Brain and the Being: New Insights into Olfactory System Anatomy, Organization and Connectivity.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Humans without a sense of smell breathe differently.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Leveraging multi-echo EPI to enhance BOLD sensitivity in task-based olfactory fMRI.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Historically, the human sense of smell has been regarded as the odd stepchild of the senses, especially compared to the sensory bravado of seeing, touching, and hearing. The idea that the human olfaction has little to contribute to our experience of the world is commonplace, though with the emergence of COVID-19 there has rather been a sea change in this understanding. An ever increasing body of work has convincingly highlighted the keen capabilities of the human nose and the sophistication of the human olfactory system. Here, we provide a concise overview of the neuroscience of human olfaction spanning the last 10-15 years, with focus on the peripheral and central mechanisms that underlie how odor information is processed, packaged, parceled, predicted, and perturbed to serve odor-guided behaviors. We conclude by offering some guideposts for harnessing the next decade of olfactory research in all its shapes and forms.
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