Our food choices and consumption behaviours are often influenced by odour hedonics,
especially in the case of those orthonasally experienced aromas (that is, those odours that …

The olfactory system is at the crossroad between sensory processing and metabolic
sensing. In addition to being the center of detection and identification of food odors, it is a …

Determining the valence of an odor to guide rapid approach–avoidance behavior is thought
to be one of the core tasks of the olfactory system, and yet little is known of the initial neural …

Experiencing chronic stress significantly increases the risk for depression. Depression is a
complex disorder with varied symptoms across patients. However, feeling of sadness and …

Positive and negative associations acquired through olfactory experience are thought to be
especially strong and long-lasting. The conserved direct olfactory sensory input to the …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia, with over 45 million patients
worldwide, and poses significant economic and emotional burdens to both patients and …

This study examined the emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their
associated odors from five key automotive interior components: door panels, weatherstrips …

Volatile chemicals in the environment provide ethologically important information to many
animals. However, how animals learn to use this information is only beginning to be …

Objectives: Odor hedonic perception is well known to exhibit great variability and to depend
on several parameters, ie stimulus, context, and subject characteristics. As hedonic …

Sniffing is a motivated behavior displayed by nearly all terrestrial vertebrates. While sniffing
is associated with acquiring and processing odors, sniffing is also intertwined with affective …