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English: An Electronic Nose was tuned to the perceptual axis of odorant pleasantness, i.e., an axis ranging from very pleasant (e.g., rose) to very unpleasant (e.g., skunk). This allowed the eNose to then smell novel odorants it never encountered before, yet still generate odor pleasantness estimates in high agreement with human assessments regardless of the subject's cultural background. This suggests an innate component of odorant pleasantness that is tightly linked to molecular structure (see Haddad et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000740).
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Source (2010) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image, Vol. 6(4) April 2010. PLoS Comput Biol 6(4): ev06.i04. doi:10.1371/image.pcbi.v06.i04
Author Genia Brodsky and Noam Sobel (The Weizmann Institute)

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