Research on olfactory perception of biologically relevant substances in a sample of school-children, aged from 6 to 14 years

Autor: F. Ligabue Stricker, B. Chiarelli
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: International Journal of Anthropology. 7:67-72
ISSN: 1824-3096
0393-9383
DOI: 10.1007/bf02447871
Popis: This study is part of an extensive research program on pheromones aiming to analyze in depth and on a wide scale man's olfaction and its ability to distinguish pheromone-like substances either of male and female origin, as well as the evolution of such ability at different physiological stages during his life. Olfaction tests were conducted on a group of 1318 school children (aged 6 to 14) by mean of “Biologically relevant” substances. Younger males and females showed the same responses to Pirroline Isovalerianate Butyrate and to Androstandiol in an high percentage of cases. Response variability gradually increases with aging and this could be explained assuming that sensitivity to biological smells keeps up with their emission or, even more, with hormone development which originates them. Hormone research is currently being carried on in order to prove such assumption.
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