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 …

The affective state is the combination of emotion and mood, with mood reflecting a running
average of sequential emotional events together with an underlying internal affective state …

Visual categorization is the brain ability to rapidly and automatically respond to a certain
category of inputs. Whether category-selective neural responses are purely visual or can be …

Human chemosensory signals are able to transmit a wide range of social information to
conspecifics. Resulting from the interaction of several genetic and physiological processes …

Elevated indoor levels of CO 2 and the presence of body odor have been shown to have
adverse effects on the cognitive function of building occupants. These factors may also …

Embodied models suggest that moral judgments are strongly intertwined with first-hand
somatic experiences, with some pointing to disgust, and others arguing for a role of …

Odors can increase memory performance when presented as context during both encoding
and retrieval phases. Since information from different sensory modalities is integrated into a …

It is well accepted that emotional intensity scales with stimulus strength. Here, we used
physiological and neuroimaging techniques to ask whether human body odor—which can …

Objective Parosmia is a qualitative olfactory dysfunction presenting as “distorted odor
perception” in presence of an odor source. Aim of this study was to use resting state …

Mothers can recognize their own children by body odor. Besides signaling familiarity,
children's body odors may provide other information relevant to maternal caregiving …