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Behavioral and physiological bases of relaxing and stimulating effects of odors and music

2021

This doctoral thesis examines the psychological and physiological mechanisms as well as the factors involved in the relaxing and stimulating effect (emotional activation) of pleasant odors, building on research work from the music domain. In Studies 1a and 1b, we observed that the modulation of the activation induced by odors influenced temporal information processing by speeding-up or slowing-down the rate of the internal clock pacemaker, similarly to what was previously reported using musicalstimuli. Moreover, prior verbalsuggestion attributing incongruent activation properties to the odors eliminated these effects, highlighting the importance of a priori expectancies on olfactory-induced…