Sentence examples for pleasant olfactory from inspiring English sources
Indeed it is rather surprising that we found similar enhanced activations in traumatized patients without using auditory traumatic stumuli, but rather neutral to pleasant olfactory stimuli.
Following presentation of relatively neutral up to pleasant rated olfactory stimuli, neural activation was observed in the primary and secondary olfactory systems, including amygdalae, insula and orbitofrontal cortex [17].
Participants underwent a fMRI investigation during olfactory stimulation with a neutral (coffee) and a pleasant (peach) odor.
When glutamate is given in combination with a consonant, savory odor (vegetable), the resulting flavor, formed by a convergence of the taste and olfactory pathways in the orbitofrontal cortex, can be much more pleasant.
Second, the decreased olfactory sensitivity of patients obviously makes their everyday "smelling experiences" less pleasant and more vague, simply because their sense of smell is weaker.
In contrast, other studies using for example gustatory, olfactory, or visual stimuli have emphasized the similarity of responses to both pleasant and unpleasant stimuli in the human amygdala [6], [7], [33], [34].
A significant positive effect of verbal priming on olfactory perception was also reported, that is, participants rated the affective value of a tested odor as being more pleasant when labeled "cheddar cheese" than when labeled "body odor" [ 5].
