Background The literature regarding clinical olfaction, olfactory loss, and olfactory
dysfunction has expanded rapidly over the past two decades, with an exponential rise in the …

The sense of smell is interrelated with psychosocial functioning. Olfactory disorders often
decrease quality of life but treatment options for people with olfactory loss are limited …

The human sense of smell is still much underappreciated, despite its importance for vital
functions such as warning and protection from environmental hazards, eating behavior and …

Olfactory and emotional higher processing pathways share common anatomical substrates.
Hence, depression is often accompanied by alterations in olfactory function. These …

The rewarding sensation of touch in affiliative interactions is hypothesized to be
underpinned by a specialized system of nerve fibers called C-Tactile afferents (CTs), which …

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its
own field of study. Because the study of emotion draws inspiration from areas of science …

The majority of the world's population now lives an urban existence, spending as much as
95% of their lives indoors. The olfactory atmosphere in the built environment has been …

The sense of smell is perhaps the most pervasive of all senses, but it is also one of the least
understood and least exploited in HCI. We present Essence, the first olfactory computational …

The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted the education of millions of students across the
world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions regarding the …

Nonhuman terrestrial mammals sniff themselves and each other to decide who is friend or
foe. Humans also sniff themselves and each other, but the function of this is unknown …