Babies Smell Wonderful to Their Parents, Teenagers Do Not: an Exploratory Questionnaire Study on Children’s Age and Personal Odor Ratings in a Polish Sample

IF 1 4区医学 Q4 Neuroscience Chemosensory Perception Pub Date : 2017-06-27 DOI:10.1007/s12078-017-9230-x

Ilona Croy, Tomasz Frackowiak, Thomas Hummel, Agnieszka Sorokowska

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Abstract

Infant body odor is subjectively pleasant to parents and activates reward areas in the brain. Hence, body odor perception might contribute to parental bonding. However, it is unknown whether the perceived pleasantness of children’s body odor varies over the course of a child’s development.

Two hundred and thirty-five parents (M?=?36.9?years, SD?=?7.3) were asked to assess the personal odor pleasantness of their children (N?=?367; M?=?9.3?years, SD?=?6.4).

Odor pleasantness was found to decrease as a function of children’s age. Neither sex of the parent nor sex of the child contributed significantly to this effect.

We propose that the effect of age-related changes on personal odor pleasantness reflects olfactory modulation of parental-child relationships.

Our study suggests that perception of young children’s personal odor as pleasant may contribute to bonding and thereby caretaking, which is needed to a lesser degree after puberty than before.

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婴儿闻起来很好，他们的父母，青少年不:一个探索性问卷研究儿童年龄和个人气味评级在波兰样本

婴儿的体味在主观上让父母感到愉悦，并激活大脑中的奖励区域。因此，体味可能有助于亲子关系。然而，在儿童的发展过程中，人们对儿童体味的感受是否会有所不同，这一点尚不清楚。235名家长(M?=?36.9?年龄，SD = 7.3)，被要求评估其孩子的个人气味愉悦度(N = 367;9.3米= ? ?6.4年,SD = ?)。研究发现，气味的愉悦度随着儿童年龄的增长而下降。父母的性别和孩子的性别对这种影响都没有显著影响。我们认为，年龄相关变化对个人气味愉悦度的影响反映了亲子关系的嗅觉调节。我们的研究表明，对幼儿个人气味的宜人感知可能有助于建立联系，从而促进照顾，而青春期后对这种照顾的需求比青春期前要少。

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Chemosensory Perception 农林科学-神经科学

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期刊介绍： Coverage in Chemosensory Perception includes animal work with implications for human phenomena and explores the following areas: Identification of chemicals producing sensory response; Identification of sensory response associated with chemicals; Human in vivo response to chemical stimuli; Human in vitro response to chemical stimuli; Neuroimaging of chemosensory function; Neurological processing of chemoreception; Chemoreception mechanisms; Psychophysics of chemoperception; Trigeminal function; Multisensory perception; Contextual effect on chemoperception; Behavioral response to chemical stimuli; Physiological factors affecting and contributing to chemoperception; Flavor and hedonics; Memory and chemoperception.