Effect of aging on hedonic appreciation of pleasant and unpleasant odors.

Does hedonic appreciation evolve differently for pleasant odors and unpleasant odors during normal aging? To answer this question we combined psychophysics and electro-encephalographic recordings in young and old adults. A first study showed that pleasant odorants (but not unpleasant ones) were rate...

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Main Authors: Pauline Joussain, Marc Thevenet, Catherine Rouby, Moustafa Bensafi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3634785?pdf=render