Emotional processing of odors: Evidence for a nonlinear relation between pleasantness and familiarity evaluations

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 469-479

  Delplanque, Sylvain ^a   Grandjean, Didier ^a   Chrea, Christelle ^a   Aymard, Laurence ^b   Cayeux, Isabelle ^b   Le Calvé, Bénédicte ^b   Velazco, Maria Inés ^b   Scherer, Klaus R ^a   Sander, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Analysis and Perception Department   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrodermal activity; Emotion; Familiarity; Hedonicity; Human olfaction; Pleasantness; Subjective scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODORS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 45549092992     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjn014     Document Type: Article

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