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@ARTICLE{Habel:904418,
author = {Habel, Ute and Regenbogen, Christina and Kammann, Catharina
and Stickel, Susanne and Chechko, Natalia},
title = {{M}ale brain processing of the body odor of ovulating women
compared to that of pregnant women},
journal = {NeuroImage},
volume = {229},
issn = {1053-8119},
address = {Orlando, Fla.},
publisher = {Academic Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-05988},
pages = {117733 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Female chemical signals underlie the advertising of sexual
receptivity and fertility. Whether the body odor of a
pregnant woman also has a signaling function with respect to
male behavior is yet to be conclusively established. This
study examines how the body odors of ovulating and pregnant
women differentially affect the behavior of heterosexual
men.Body odor samples were collected from 5 pregnant women
and 5 matched controls during ovulation. In a double-blind
functional magnetic resonance imaging design, 18
heterosexual men were exposed to female body odors during
ovulation (OV) and pregnancy (PRG) while being required to
indicate the attractiveness of concurrently presented female
portrait images. The participants were also required to
indicate whether they assumed a depicted woman was
pregnant.While neither OV nor PRG altered the perceived
attractiveness of a presented face, the men tended to
identify the women as pregnant while exposed to a PRG body
odor. On the neural level, OV activated a network of the
frontotemporal and limbic regions, while PRG activated the
superior medial frontal gyrus.The results suggest that the
detection of sexual availability activates the male brain
regions associated with face processing and
reward/motivation, whereas sensing pregnancy activates a
region responsible for empathy and prosocial behavior. Thus,
the female body odor during pregnancy likely helps foster
circumstances conducive to the future care of offspring
while the body odor advertising sexual availability promotes
mating behavior. The brains of heterosexual men may be
capable of unconsciously discriminating between these two
types of olfactory stimuli.},
cin = {INM-10},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-10-20170113},
pnm = {5252 - Brain Dysfunction and Plasticity (POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5252},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:33484852},
UT = {WOS:000629509400016},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.117733},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904418},
}