Sensory

Development of an International Odor Identification Test for Children The Universal Sniff Test

_Objective_ To assess olfactory function in children and to create and validate an odor identification test to diagnose olfactory dysfunction in children, which we called the Universal Sniff (U-Sniff) test. _Study design_ This is a multicenter study …

Emotional Body Odors as Context Effects on Cardiac and Subjective Responses

Many studies have indicated that the chemical cues from body odors (BOs) of donors experiencing negative emotions can influence the psychophysiological and behavioral response of the observers. However, these olfactory cues have been used mainly as …

Smelling Anxiety Chemosignals Impairs Clinical Performance of Dental Students

Despite the fact that human body odors can transfer anxiety-related signals, the impact of such signals in real-life situations is scant. In this study, the effects of anxiety chemosignals on the performance of dental students operating on simulation …

The Effects of Emotional Visual Context on the Encoding and Retrieval of Body Odor Information

Conditions during information encoding and retrieval are known to influence the sensory material stored and its recapitulation. However, little is known about such processes in olfaction. Here, we capitalized on the uniqueness of body odors (BOs) …

Aversive Olfactory Conditioning

The mammalian olfactory system is intertwined with emotional and memory centers of the brain, thus providing an ideal model to study olfactory-based fear conditioning, a behavior lying at the intersection of perception, emotion, and cognition. In the …

Processing of Human Body Odors

Human chemosensory signals are able to transmit a wide range of social information to conspecifics.

A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Sniffin’ Sticks Olfactory Identification Test for US children

Disorders associated with smell loss are common in adolescents. However, current odor identification tests focus on children from age 6 and older and no cross-cultural test has to date been validated and fully implemented. Here, we aimed to …

Relative Contribution of Odour Intensity and Valence to Moral Decisions

Meta-analytic evidence showed that the chemical senses affect moral decisions. However, how odours impact on morality is currently unclear. Through a set of three studies, we assess whether and how odour intensity biases moral choices (Study 1a), its …

The smell of terroir! Olfactory discrimination between wines of different grape variety and different terroir

The French term terroir refers to the relationship between a particular wine and the specific place where it is produced. To date, no investigation has directly tested in an experimentally-controlled setting whether participants can detect different …

Cross-Modal Interactions between Olfaction and Vision When Grasping?

This study used kinematics to investigate the integration between vision and olfaction during grasping movements. Participants were requested to smell an odorant and then grasp an object presented in central vision. The results indicate that if the …