Social Chemosignaling as a Factor in Human Behavior in both Health and Disease

Project Information

SocioSmell

Grant agreement ID: 670798

DOI 10.3030/670798

Project closed

EC signature date 1 September 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 31 January 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 074 206,00

EU contribution € 2 074 206,00

Coordinated by

WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Israel

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Human Olfaction without Apparent Olfactory Bulbs

Author(s): Weiss, Tali, Timna Soroka, Lior Gorodisky, Sagit Shushan, Kobi Snitz, Reut Weissgross, Edna Furman-Haran, Thijs Dhollander, and Noam Sobel.
Published in: Neuron, Issue 105, no. 1 (2020), 2020, Page(s) 35-45, ISSN 0896-6273
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.006

Relationship Between Odor Intensity Estimates and COVID-19 Prevalence Prediction in a Swedish Population

Author(s): Behzad Iravani, Artin Arshamian, Aharon Ravia, Eva Mishor, Kobi Snitz, Sagit Shushan, Yehudah Roth, Ofer Perl, Danielle Honigstein, Reut Weissgross, Shiri Karagach, Gernot Ernst, Masako Okamoto, Zachary Mainen, Erminio Monteleone, Caterina Dinnella, Sara Spinelli, Franklin Mariño-Sánchez, Camille Ferdenzi, Monique Smeets, Kazushige Touhara, Moustafa Bensafi, Thomas Hummel, Noam Sobel, Johan N Lu
Published in: Chemical Senses, Issue 45/6, 2020, Page(s) 449-456, ISSN 0379-864X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa034

Are humans constantly but subconsciously smelling themselves?

Author(s): Ofer Perl, Eva Mishor, Aharon Ravia, Inbal Ravreby, Noam Sobel
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 375/1800, 2020, Page(s) 20190372, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0372

Odor Canopy: A Method for Comfortable Odorant Delivery in MRI

Author(s): Lior Gorodisky, Ethan Livne, Tali Weiss, Aharon Weissbrod, Reut Weissgross, Eva Mishor, Edna Furman-Haran, Noam Sobel
Published in: Chemical Senses, 2021, ISSN 0379-864X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjaa085

SmellSpace: An Odor-Based Social Network as a Platform for Collecting Olfactory Perceptual Data

Author(s): Kobi Snitz, Ofer Perl, Danielle Honigstein, Lavi Secundo, Aharon Ravia, Adi Yablonka, Yaara Endevelt-Shapira, Noam Sobel
Published in: Chemical Senses, Issue 44/4, 2019, Page(s) 267-278, ISSN 0379-864X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjz014

Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder

Author(s): Yaara Endevelt-Shapira, Ofer Perl, Aharon Ravia, Daniel Amir, Ami Eisen, Vered Bezalel, Liron Rozenkrantz, Eva Mishor, Liron Pinchover, Timna Soroka, Danielle Honigstein, Noam Sobel
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, Issue 21/1, 2018, Page(s) 111-119, ISSN 1097-6256
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-017-0024-x

Individual olfactory perception reveals meaningful nonolfactory genetic information

Author(s): Lavi Secundo, Kobi Snitz, Kineret Weissler, Liron Pinchover, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Ron Loewenthal, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Idan Frumin, Dana Bar-Zvi, Sagit Shushan, Noam Sobel
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 112/28, 2015, Page(s) 8750-8755, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424826112

A Mechanistic Link between Olfaction and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Author(s): Liron Rozenkrantz, Ditza Zachor, Iris Heller, Anton Plotkin, Aharon Weissbrod, Kobi Snitz, Lavi Secundo, Noam Sobel
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 25/14, 2015, Page(s) 1904-1910, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.048

Measuring and Characterizing the Human Nasal Cycle

Author(s): Roni Kahana-Zweig, Maya Geva-Sagiv, Aharon Weissbrod, Lavi Secundo, Nachum Soroker, Noam Sobel
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 11/10, 2016, Page(s) e0162918, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162918

Unexplained repeated pregnancy loss is associated with altered perceptual and brain responses to men’s body-odor

Author(s): Liron Rozenkrantz, Reut Weissgross, Tali Weiss, Inbal Ravreby, Idan Frumin, Sagit Shushan, Lior Gorodisky, Netta Reshef, Yael Holzman, Liron Pinchover, Yaara Endevelt-Shapira, Eva Mishor, Timna Soroka, Maya Finkel, Liav Tagania, Aharon Ravia, Ofer Perl, Edna Furman-Haran, Howard Carp, Noam Sobel
Published in: eLife, Issue 9, 2020, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.55305

Women Have Reduced Ability to Discriminate Body Odors During the Withdrawal Period of Oral Contraception

Author(s): Yaara Endevelt–Shapira, Liron Pinchover, Ofer Perl, Ella Bar, Ayelet Avin, Noam Sobel
Published in: Chemosensory Perception, Issue 13/2, 2020, Page(s) 123-131, ISSN 1936-5802
Publisher: Springer Pub. Co.,
DOI: 10.1007/s12078-019-09273-9

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Sniffing the Human Body-Volatile Hexadecanal Blocks Aggression in Men but Triggers Aggression in Women

Author(s): Eva Mishor, Daniel Amir, Tali Weiss, Danielle Honigstein, Aharon Weissbrod, Ethan Livne, Lior Gorodisky, Shiri Karagach, Aharon Ravia, Kobi Snitz, Diyala Karawani, Rotem Zirler, Reut Weissgross, Timna Soroka, Yaara Endevelt-Shapira, Shani Agron, Liron Rozenkrantz, Netta Reshef, Edna Furman-Haran, Heinz Breer, Joerg Strotmann, Tatsuya Uebi, Mamiko Ozaki, Noam Sobel
Published in: BioRxiv, 2021, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2020.09.29.318287

Sniffing Out New Friends: Similarity in Body-Odor Predicts the Quality of Same-Sex Non-Romantic Dyadic Interactions

Author(s): Inbal Ravreby, Kobi Snitz, Noam Sobel
Published in: BioRxiv, 2021, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor