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Not all emotions are equal:Fear chemosignals lower awareness thresholds only for fearful faces

dc.contributor.authorSemin, Gün R.
dc.contributor.authorKorb, Sebastian
dc.contributor.authorGomes, Nuno
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Fábio
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-07T22:46:59Z
dc.date.available2020-07-07T22:46:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractExposure to body odors (chemosignals) collected under different emotional states (i.e., emotional chemosignals) can modulate our visual system, biasing visual perception. Recent research has suggested that exposure to fear body odors, results in a generalized faster access to visual awareness of different emotional facial expressions (i.e., fear, happy, and neutral). In the present study, we aimed at replicating and extending these findings by exploring if these effects are limited to fear odor, by introducing a second negative body odor - i.e., disgust. We compared the time that three different emotional facial expressions (i.e., fear, disgust, and neutral) took to reach visual awareness, during a breaking continuous flash suppression paradigm, across three body odor conditions (i.e., fear, disgust and neutral). We found that fear body odors do not trigger an overall faster access to visual awareness, but instead sped-up access to awareness specifically for facial expressions of fear. Disgust odor, on the other hand, had no effects on awareness thresholds of facial expressions. These findings contrast with prior results, suggesting that the potential of fear body odors to induce visual processing adjustments is specific to fear cues. Furthermore, our results support a unique ability of fear body odors in inducing such visual processing changes, compared to other negative emotional chemosignals (i.e., disgust). These conclusions raise interesting questions as to how fear odor might interact with the visual processing stream, whilst simultaneously giving rise to future avenues of research.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationChemical Senses Doi: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa047pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/chemse/bjaa047pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0379864X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/7685
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherOxford University Presspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectFearpt_PT
dc.subjectDisgustpt_PT
dc.subjectChemosignalspt_PT
dc.subjectVisual Awarenesspt_PT
dc.subjectContinuous Flash Suppressionpt_PT
dc.titleNot all emotions are equal:Fear chemosignals lower awareness thresholds only for fearful facespt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceUnited Kingdompt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage26pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleChemical Sensespt_PT
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person.familyNameMorgado Gomes
person.familyNameSilva
person.givenNameIgor R.
person.givenNameSebastian
person.givenNameNuno Miguel
person.givenNameFábio
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