Fabrice Damon

What can face preference in newborns tell us about their face representation? Contrasting learned familiarity with inherent bias accounts

Fabrice Damon, Rafael Laboissière, David Méary, Michelle Heron‐Delaney et autres

Possible mechanisms behind newborn face preferences are debated, including innate templates, top-heavy bias, focus on eyes, and rapid learning explanations. This study examined whether White 2- to 5-day-olds (recruited in France between 2012 and 2015) prefer adult over neonate faces with same-race …

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Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology

Plotine Jardat, Alexandra Destrez, Fabrice Damon, Noa Tanguy-Guillo et autres

Olfaction is the most widespread sensory modality animals use to communicate, yet much remains to be discovered about its role. While most studies focused on intraspecific interactions and reproduction, new evidence suggests chemosignals may influence interspecific interactions and emotional communication. This study …

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Breastfeeding, bonding, and olfaction: unlocking the potential of mother-infant odour exchange

S. Craig Roberts, Fabrice Damon, Karine Durand, Jan Havlı́ček et autres

Breastfeeding is crucial for infant survival, growth, and health, and it enhances maternal-infant bonding and well-being. However, breastfeeding rates typically fall below international targets, partly due to a high prevalence of latching difficulties, intermittent sucking, refusing the breast, or poor milk supply. …

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Behaviour of ewes and lambs in response to human emotional odours

Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Dylan Brimaud, Léa Lansade et autres

This study investigated whether sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate the body odour of unfamiliar humans subjected to a contrastive emotion-inducing procedure. Axillary secretions were collected from 38 humans after they watched fearful or joyful films. The behavioural responses of adult ewes (n = …

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Arousal, valence, and discrete categories in facial emotion

Jean‐Yves Baudouin, Florenn Gallian, Jean-Michel Pinoit, Fabrice Damon

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the categorical recognition of emotional facial expressions and two affective dimensions, arousal and valence, as well as other facial characteristics, such as gender and age. To achieve this goal, participants were …

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Emotional contagion from humans to horses through odors

Plotine Jardat, Alexandra Destrez, Fabrice Damon, Noa Tanguy-Guillo et autres

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Human emotional odours influence horses’ behaviour and physiology

Plotine Jardat, Alexandra Destrez, Fabrice Damon, Noa Tanguy-Guillo et autres

Abstract Olfaction is the most widespread sensory modality animals use to communicate, yet much remains to be discovered about its role. While most studies focused on intraspecific interactions and reproduction, new evidence suggests chemosignals may influence interspecific interactions and emotional communication. This …

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Olfactory awareness in lambs assessed through habituation-dishabituation and approach-withdrawal tests

Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Bruno Patris, Benoı̂st Schaal et autres

Assessing olfaction in lambs presents methodological challenges due to their precocial development and extreme sensitivity to isolation and novelty. Previous research studied lambs’ olfactory reactivity, particularly to odors from conspecifics, their responses to other odor sources remaining underexplored. To begin addressing this …

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Do sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate human emotional odors?

Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Solène Mousqué, Bruno Patris et autres

While sheep can detect and discriminate human emotions through visual and vocal cues, their reaction to human body odors remains unknown. The present study aimed to determine whether sheep (Ovis aries) can detect human odors, olfactorily discriminate stressed from non-stressed individuals, and …

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Marqueurs cérébraux de la reconnaissance des émotions dans les troubles du spectre de l'autisme

Florenn Gallian, Fabrice Damon, Jean-Michel Pinoit, Baudouin Jean-Yves

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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates

Magali Klaey‐Tassone, Robert Soussignan, Karine Durand, Sarah Le Roy et autres

Human milk odor is attractive and appetitive for human newborns. Here, we studied behavioral and heart-rate (HR) responses of 2-day-old neonates to the odor of human colostrum. To evaluate detection in two conditions of stimulus delivery, we first presented the odor of …

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Horses discriminate human body odours from joy and fear contexts

Léa Lansade, Plotine Jardat, Alexandra Destrez, Fabrice Damon et autres

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