Semantic knowledge influences prewired hedonic responses to odors.

Odor hedonic perception relies on decoding the physicochemical properties of odorant molecules and can be influenced in humans by semantic knowledge. The effect of semantic knowledge on such prewired hedonic processing over the life span has remained unclear.The present study measured hedonic respon...

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Main Authors: Johan Poncelet, Fanny Rinck, Anne Ziessel, Pauline Joussain, Marc Thévenet, Catherine Rouby, Moustafa Bensafi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2975635?pdf=render