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Olfactory Capacity and Obesity: A Narrative Review of the Literature

Applied Sciences
The sense of smell plays a crucial role in food perception, influencing dietary choices and eating behavior. This narrative review explores the relationship between olfactory function and obesity, addressing the question: how does smell influence the ...
Samuel Durán-Agüero, Ana María Obregón-Rivas   +1 more
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Case study on the construction path of olfactory space in Jiangsu University Library [PDF]

Digital Transformation and Society
Purpose – This article explores the scientific construction of library olfactory space, based on the case of the olfactory space in the Jiangsu University library.
Yingying Yu, Wencheng Su, Guifeng Liu
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Reid on Olfaction and Secondary Qualities

Frontiers in Psychology, 2013
Thomas Reid is one of the primary early expositors of the dual-component theory of perception, according to which conscious perception constitutively involves a non-intentional sensation accompanied by a noninferential perceptual belief. In this paper, I
Jake eQuilty-Dunn
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Autonomic Responses Associated with Olfactory Preferences of Fragrance Consumers: Skin Conductance, Respiration, and Heart Rate

Sensors
Assessing the olfactory preferences of consumers is an important aspect of fragrance product development and marketing. With the advancement of wearable device technologies, physiological signals hold great potential for evaluating olfactory preferences.
Bangbei Tang, Mingxin Zhu, Yingzhang Wu, Gang Guo, Zhian Hu, Yongfeng Ding   +5 more
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The inability to self-evaluate smell performance. How the vividness of mental images outweighs awareness of olfactory performance.

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015
To rate one’s individual olfactory performance is difficult and in many cases differs clearly from validated objective olfactory performance measures. This study aimed to investigate the basis for this measurement drift between objective and subjective ...
Kathrin eKollndorfer, Ksenia eKowalczyk, Stefanie eNell, Jacqueline eKrajnik, Christian A Mueller, Veronika eSchöpf, Veronika eSchöpf, Veronika eSchöpf   +7 more
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Sadness might isolate you in a non-smelling world: Olfactory perception and depression

Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Major depressive disorder (MDD) occurs with a high prevalence among the mental illnesses. MDD patients experience sadness and hopelessness, with blunted affective reactivity.
Sylvia eSchablitzky, Bettina M Pause
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On the state-dependent nature of odor perception

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
The olfactory system—and odor perception by extension—is susceptible to state-dependent influences. This review delves into human behavioral research in this area, and also touches on mechanistic evidence and examples from animal work.
Laura K. Shanahan, Laura K. Shanahan, Thorsten Kahnt, Thorsten Kahnt   +3 more
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Study of the neuronal response to olfactory stimuli in control and LPS-stimulated mice by functional magnetic resonance imaging

Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2015
Olfactory perception plays the key role in the inter­action of animals with biotic factors of the species-specific econiche. Identification of odorants informs nocturnal animals about social environment, presence of predators, or infected food. Olfactory
A. E. Akulov, A. V. Romashchenko, O. B. Shevelev, D. V. Petrovski, A. A. Savelov, M. P. Moshkin   +5 more
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Olfactory Perception Modus Comparison Features in V. Pelevin’s Work

Развитие образования, 2019
The article deals with olfactory perception modus comparisons in postmodern literature (on the example of literary text by V. Pelevin: «Omon Ra», «Life of Insects», «Chapaev and Emptiness», «Generation «П», «Numbers» (as a part of «DTP»), «The Sacred ...
Polina S. Ivanova, Elena P. Ivanyan
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Odor of Fatty Acids: Differences in Threshold and Perception Intensity Between Sexes

Foods
In humans, food choice, nutrient intake, and meal size are strongly influenced by sense of smell. It is known that individuals differ in their olfactory abilities and may show a normal, reduced, or absent sense of smell.
Daniela Diana, Giorgia Sollai
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