The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures

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Arshamian ArtinORCID,Gerkin Richard C.ORCID,Kruspe Nicole,Wnuk Ewelina,Floyd Simeon,O’Meara Carolyn,Rodriguez Gabriela Garrido,Lundström Johan N.ORCID,Mainland Joel D.ORCID,Majid AsifaORCID

Abstract

AbstractHuman sensory experience varies across the globe. Nonetheless, all humans share sensory systems with a common anatomical blueprint. In olfaction, it is unknown to what degree sensory perception, in particular the perception of odor pleasantness, is dictated by universal biological principles versus sculpted by culture. To address this issue, we asked 235 individuals from 9 diverse non-western cultures to rank the hedonic value of monomolecular odorants. We observed substantial global consistency, with molecular identity explaining 41% of the variance in individual pleasantness rankings, while culture explained only 6%. These rankings were predicted by the physicochemical properties of out-of-sample molecules and out-of-sample pleasantness ratings given by a separate group of industrialized western urbanites, indicating human olfactory perception is strongly constrained by universal principles.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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