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High and Low Roads to Odor Valence?: A Choice Response-Time Study
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology. Northwestern University, USA.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0856-0569
2013 (English)In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, ISSN 0096-1523, E-ISSN 1939-1277, Vol. 39, no 5, p. 1205-1211Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Valence and edibility are two important features of olfactory perception, but it remains unclear how they are read out from an olfactory input. For a given odor object (e.g., the smell of rose or garlic), does perceptual identification of that object necessarily precede retrieval of information about its valence and edibility, or alternatively, are these processes independent? In the present study, we studied rapid, binary perceptual decisions regarding odor detection, object identity, valence, and edibility for a set of common odors. We found that decisions regarding odor-object identity were faster than decisions regarding odor valence or edibility, but slower than detection. Mediation analysis revealed that odor valence and edibility decision response times were predicted by a model in which odor-object identity served as a mediator along the perceptual pathway from detection to both valence and edibility. According to this model, odor valence is determined through both a low road that bypasses odor objects and a high road that utilizes odor-object information. Edibility evaluations are constrained to processing via the high road. The results outline a novel causal framework that explains how major perceptual features might be rapidly extracted from odors through engagement of odor objects early in the processing stream.

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2013. Vol. 39, no 5, p. 1205-1211
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olfactory perception, odor object coding, valence, emotion
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-95757DOI: 10.1037/a0033682ISI: 000325247600001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-95757DiVA, id: diva2:662212
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