New determinants of olfactory habituation

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 41047
• Main Authors: Sinding, Charlotte, Valadier, François, Al-Hassani, Viviana, Feron, Gilles, Tromelin, Anne, Kontaris, Ioannis, Hummel, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.01.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/378/2624; 631/378/3917; Adaptation; Adult; Aroma compounds; Chemical Phenomena; Female; Habituation; Habituation, Psychophysiologic; Human health and pathology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Hydrophobicity; Information processing; Life Sciences; Male; Molecular weight; multidisciplinary; Nervous system; Neurons and Cognition; Odor intensity; Odorants; Odors; Olfaction; Otolaryngology; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensory evaluation; Sensory Organs; Smell; Structure-odor relationships; Vapor pressure; Young Adult; identification; responses; discrimination; activation; humans; cortical adaptation; homologous series; odorant receptor; desensitization; stimulation

Habituation is a filter that optimizes the processing of information by our brain in all sensory modalities. It results in an unconscious reduced responsiveness to continuous or repetitive stimulation. In olfaction, the main question is whether habituation works the same way for any odorant or wheth...