The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome.

International audience; Experiencing pleasure and displeasure is a fundamental part of life. Hedonics guide behavior, affect decision-making, induce learning, and much more. As the positive and negative valence of feelings, hedonics are core processes that accompany emotion, motivation, and bodily states. Here, the affective neuroscience of pleasure and displeasure that has largely focused on the investigation of reward and pain processing, is reviewed. We describe the neurobiological systems of hedonics and factors that modulate hedonic experiences (e.g., cognition, learning, sensory input). Further, we review maladaptive and adaptive pleasure and displeasure functions in mental disorders …

Olfactory abilities and behaviour in 6-12 year-old French children

Les liens entre les odeurs et les émotions : contributions à une question transdisciplinaire

Attitudes toward everyday odors for children with visual impairments: A pilot study

The question of how the processing of stimuli from the external world is organized or reorganized when a sensory modality is altered or missing has been the subject of numerous studies, although the studies have mostly been on tactile and auditory abilities (Hatwell, 2003). In contrast, olfaction has been poorly investigated in people who are visually impaired, despite the increasing evidence that humans have a keen sense of smell (Schaal & Porter, 1991). Odors influence mood; well-being (Ehrlichman & Bastone, 1992); and social interactions, such as the choice of partners (Herz & Inzlicht, 2002). Emotional and social implications of odors go back to the earliest periods of development (Scha…

Dimensions affectives des odeurs dans les expériences quotidiennes des enfants

Human awareness and uses of odor cues in everyday life: Results from a questionnaire study in children

The Children's Olfactory Behavior in Everyday Life questionnaire was developed to assess attention to, and uses of, odors in real-life situations, and to evaluate individual variations. The tool comprises 16 items prompting self-reports of active seeking, awareness and affective reactivity to odors of food, people and the environment. Children (102 girls, 113 boys) aged 6–10 years participated in the study. The results revealed that girls were significantly more olfaction-oriented than boys, especially towards the odors of people, self and the environment. An increasing ability of children to describe the odor facets of their perceptual world was found between 6 and 10 years, partly due to …

Les cultures olfactives enfantines: expérience individuelle, pratiques partagées, clivage des genres

Odeurs et Emotions. Le nez a ses raisons...

Ouvrage issu d'un colloque, édité sous la direction de Benoist Schaal, Camille Ferdenzi et Olivier Wathelet. Publié par les Editions Universitaires de Dijon en avril 2013. Il présente les diverses méthodes et les concepts liés aux relations entre olfaction et affectivité.; Le nez a ses raisons que, dit-on, la raison ne connaîtrait pas. Ou ne connaît plus. L'affirmation est en effet courante selon laquelle l'odorat humain ne serait qu'une relique superflue d'un lointain passé simien. Un sens qui serait dépourvu de toute fonction, en particulier dans les mondes urbains et soi-disant aseptisés du 21ème siècle. Et pourtant, odeurs, parfums, arômes et fragrances sont des expédients très actuels …