signature=d5b8e7dfacef9fe962fdfc8a6131fcb1,Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face ge...

摘要：

Although strong cross-sensory interactions between visual, tactile and auditory modalities have already been shown, we know little about how chemosensory information affects processing in other sensory modalities. We studied whether smelling gender-specific odorous -like steroids: 5-alpha-androgenst-16-en-3-one () or oestra-1, 3, 5 (10), 16-tetraen-3-ol () can bias face gender discrimination. We found that, as a result of inhalation of , men perceive faces to be more masculine as compared to when they are exposed to . Our results provide evidence for specific cross-sensory effects of the gender-specific chemosensory cues on the categorization of visual face gender.

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