Short-term exposure/long-term affects

[jvkohl]

Published yesterday:

Coureaud G, Moncomble AS, Montigny D, Dewas M, Perrier G, Schaal B. A Pheromone That

Rapidly Promotes Learning in the Newborn. Curr Biol. 2006 Oct 10;16(19):1956-1961.

Key Issue: The

unconscious affect of a rabbit pheromone can act either as a reinforcing agent, or a one-trial conditioning agent.

Reinforcement of the most likely hormone response (e.g., a downstream effect of gonadotropin-releasing hormone)

could occur when the pheromone converts an associated secondary odor into a conditioned stimulus. Extension to

humans of this mammalian (i.e., rabbit) model (e.g., by me) indicates that either maternal natural body odor, or the

body odor of other people, may become a conditioned stimulus that evokes a behavioral response, even in the absence

of the pheromone during subsequent encounters. It also indicates that a single exposure to a pheromone may elicit

powerful long-term behavioral affects.

JVK


Press release added

10/12/06
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1010022813.htm

[Muscle4Hire]

What I hear you saying is

called a classical conditioning in psychology (Pavlov.) This explains when you give a good thing and a

neutral stimulus with it, after frequent experiences with both, that neutral stimulus can come in and evoke the

SAME EMOTIONS (i.e. pheromones to your face, she sees your face, great emotions occur.) Vice versa, if you remember

a great psychology experiment from a long time ago, a baby was given 2 different neutral stimuli, one with pleasure

and one with a blaring horn. After a couple of exposures, that neutral stimuli with the blaring horn was presented

WITHOUT the loud noise and the baby still cried uncontrollably.

Fact: Scent is one of the biggest

triggers to memory and emotion.

There is both biology (chemical pheromones into the VNO, etc etc) and the

psychological effects.



[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning[/UR

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[jvkohl]

What I hear you

saying is called a classical conditioning in psychology (Pavlov.) This explains when you give a good thing

and a neutral stimulus with it, after frequent experiences with both, that neutral stimulus can come in and evoke

the SAME EMOTIONS (i.e. pheromones to your face, she sees your face, great emotions occur.) Vice versa, if you

remember a great psychology experiment from a long time ago, a baby was given 2 different neutral stimuli, one with

pleasure and one with a blaring horn. After a couple of exposures, that neutral stimuli with the blaring horn was

presented WITHOUT the loud noise and the baby still cried uncontrollably.

Fact: Scent is one of the

biggest triggers to memory and emotion.

There is both biology (chemical pheromones into the VNO, etc etc)

and the psychological effects.



[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_conditioning[/

URL]

You are correct about the classical conditioning. However, human pheromones do not work via the

VNO.

JVK