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Olfactory signals can motivate action in a range of animals, as innate responses or as learned patterns of behaviour, a distinction often difficult to make. For example, sexual responses of male rats to female odours and other odours can be enhanced by prior sexual experience (cited by West et al., 1992) with a parallel effect on ventral striatal (accumbens) neuron responses to experimentally associated odours (ibid). The detection of food and skilled reaching for it by rats is based on olfactory input (Whishaw and Tomie, 1989). Olfactory discrimination is often investigated by association of odours with particular instrumental actions (Slotnik, 1990). That odours can influence human mood and behaviour seems obvious to subjective introspection and casual observation, although it is not clear how much is innate (Doty, 1991; Engen, 1982, Schmidt and Beauchamp, 1992). The commercial importance of the perfume and fragrance industry is objective evidence for olfactory influences on human behaviour at many levels.
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McKenzie, J.S., Paolini, A.G., Kunze, W.A.A. (1994). Olfactory Bulb Influence on Neurons of Ventral Striatum. In: Percheron, G., McKenzie, J.S., Féger, J. (eds) The Basal Ganglia IV. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0485-2_30
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