Olfaction in the Multisensory Processing of Faces: A Narrative Review of the Influence of Human Body Odors.

ABSTRACT: A recent body of research has emerged regarding the interactions between olfaction and other sensory channels to process social information. The current review examines the influence of body odors on face perception, a core component of human social cognition. First, we review studies reporting how body odors interact with the perception of invariant facial information (i.e., identity, sex, attractiveness, trustworthiness, and dominance). Although we mainly focus on the influence of body odors based on axillary odor, we also review findings about specific steroids present in axillary sweat (i.e., androstenone, androstenol, androstadienone, and estratetraenol). We next survey the literature showing body odor influences on the perception of transient face properties, notably in discussing th

SUBMITTER: Damon F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8523678 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature