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Smells in Sustainable Environments: The Scented Silk Road to Spending

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Humanity's demand for ecological resources and services exceeds what earth can regenerate in that year, creating an urgent need for more sustainable behavior.
Jasper H. B. de Groot
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In a dirty virtual room: exposure to an unpleasant odor increases the senses of presence, reality, and realism

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2022
A recent study found that in a virtual room devoid of obvious visual cues linking visual and olfactory stimuli, exposure to an unpleasant odor (but not to a pleasant one) led to statistically significant increases in the sense of Presence. A second study
Oliver Baus   +3 more
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Oscillatory Sequences of Firing in the Locust Olfactory System: Mechanisms and Functional Significance [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
What neural codes does the brain use to represent and process sensory information? Stimulus-evoked oscillatory synchronization of neuronal activity has been observed in many systems, yet the possible functions of such rhythmic synchronization in neural ...
Wehr, Michael Stephen
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Wastewater deodorization methods at wastewater treatment plants

open access: yesАрхитектура, строительство, транспорт, 2021
The article presents a review of existing methods for reducing gases’ emissions with specific unpleasant odors during the process of wastewater and sludge treatment at wastewater treatment plants.
E. S. Glushchenko, A. A. Kadyseva
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AGE AND GENDER'S EFFECTS ON "OLFACTORY IDENTIFICATION AND MEMORY" & "VISUAL IDENTIFICATION AND MEMORY" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"Olfaction" (adverbial form: "olfactory") is described as the sense of smell.1 Among all of our senses; touch, sight, hearing, taste and smell, our sense of smell is probably the most epicurean and rudimentary.
Özdağ, Yağız
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Positive relationship between odor identification and affective responses of negatively valenced odors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Hedonic ratings of odors and olfactory preferences are influenced by a number of modulating factors, such as prior experience and knowledge about an odor’s identity. The present study addresses the relationship between knowledge about an odor’
S Craig eRoberts   +11 more
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Representation of Olfactory Information in Organized Active Neural Ensembles in the Hypothalamus

open access: yesCell Reports, 2020
Summary: The internal representation of sensory information via coherent activation of specific pathways in the nervous system is key to appropriate behavioral responses.
Vinicius Miessler de Andrade Carvalho   +8 more
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Odor as a medium of cohesion and belonging

open access: yesRecherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2021
Within the social sciences, family research in sociology has in recent years – and for good reason – taken to adopting a “practical turn” to its subject.
Tino Schlinzig
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APRENDIZAGEM DA EXTENSÃO DA PROBÓSCIDE EM ZANGÕES AFRICANIZADOS (APIS MELLIFERA L.) CONFINADOS

open access: yesCiência Animal Brasileira, 2015
Studies on the olfactive learning in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are predominantly performed with worker bees. In this study, we used the classical conditioning of proboscis extension (PER) to evaluate the effectiveness of 5 scents as conditioned ...
Italo Souza Aquino   +3 more
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Recall of Odorous Objects in Virtual Reality

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction
The aim was to investigate how the congruence of odors and visual objects in virtual reality (VR) affects later memory recall of the objects. Participants (N = 30) interacted with 12 objects in VR. The interaction was varied by odor congruency (i.e., the
Jussi Rantala   +9 more
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