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| Title |
Eye-Catching Odors: Olfaction Elicits Sustained Gazing to Faces and Eyes in 4-Month-Old Infants
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0070677 |
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| Authors |
Karine Durand, Jean-Yves Baudouin, David J. Lewkowicz, Nathalie Goubet, Benoist Schaal |
| Abstract |
This study investigated whether an odor can affect infants' attention to visually presented objects and whether it can selectively direct visual gaze at visual targets as a function of their meaning. Four-month-old infants (n = 48) were exposed to their mother's body odors while their visual exploration was recorded with an eye-movement tracking system. Two groups of infants, who were assigned to either an odor condition or a control condition, looked at a scene composed of still pictures of faces and cars. As expected, infants looked longer at the faces than at the cars but this spontaneous preference for faces was significantly enhanced in presence of the odor. As expected also, when looking at the face, the infants looked longer at the eyes than at any other facial regions, but, again, they looked at the eyes significantly longer in the presence of the odor. Thus, 4-month-old infants are sensitive to the contextual effects of odors while looking at faces. This suggests that early social attention to faces is mediated by visual as well as non-visual cues. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 14 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 7% |
| Japan | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 11 | 79% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 86% |
| Scientists | 1 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 110 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 108 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 18% |
| Researcher | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 24% |
| Unknown | 18 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 40 | 36% |
| Neuroscience | 16 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Engineering | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 15 | 14% |
| Unknown | 23 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2019.
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#3,072,550
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#39,224
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#26,106
of 205,753 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#891
of 4,900 outputs
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