Exposure to Androstenes Influences Processing of Emotional Words

2018

This article is part of the Research Topic 'The Importance of Olfaction in Intra- and Interspecific Communication'; International audience; There is evidence that human-produced androstenes affect attitudinal, emotional, and physiological states in a context-dependent manner, suggesting that they could be involved in modulating social interactions. For instance, androstadienone appears to increase attention specifically to emotional information. Most of the previous work focused on one or two androstenes. Here, we tested whether androstenes affect linguistic processing, using three different androstene compounds. Participants (90 women and 77 men) performed a lexical decision task after bei…

Age-related changes in the processing of the Rabbit Mammary Pheromone: comparison in domestic and wild pups

2006

IV Symposium des German-Brain-Endocrine-Immune-Network

2005