Lab note 3: previous literature

Lundström et. al (2008). Functional Neuronal Processing of Body Odors Differs from that of Similar Common Odors. Cereb. Cortex 18, 1466-1474.

Pause, B. M. (2012) Processing of Body Odor Signals by the Human Brain. Chemosensory Perception, 55-63.

Studies on the neuronal processing of human body odors indicate that social chemosensory signals are differently processed in the human brain than common odors (Lundström et al. 2008). Apparently, the same neural substrates that underlie the processing of social information are accountable for the processing of human social chemosignals (body odors) (Pause, 2012). One of these brain areas is the fusiform cortex, known to be important for face recognition. With our experiment we want to shed light on the effects of body odors on the recognition of faces. Since both seems to be processed in the same brain area, we want to take a closer look on their neural underpinnings and the role of the fusiform gyrus in that matter.