www.eg.org diglib.eg.org Abstract Studies aiming at increasing the sense of reality by using scents with the picture medium, such as movies, have lately attracted much attention. In the picture medium, multiple objects with different scents are seen at the same time. Therefore, it is thought that by controlling the presentation of scent in accordance with the various scented objects seen, the v...

Scent marking can provide behavioral and physiological information including territory ownership and mate advertisement. It is unknown how mating status and pair cohabitation influence marking by males from different social systems. We compared the highly territorial and monogamous California mouse (Peromyscus californicus) to the less territorial and promiscuous white-footed mouse (P. leucopus...

BACKGROUND Many animals produce elaborated sexual signals to attract mates, among them are common chemical sexual signals (pheromones) with an attracting function. Lizards produce chemical secretions for scent marking that may have a role in sexual selection. In the laboratory, female rock lizards (Iberolacerta cyreni) prefer the scent of males with more ergosterol in their femoral secretions. ...

Qualitative and quantitative changes in dogs’ information-seeking behaviours during the subsequent phases of operant conditioning training using a scent lineup, were investigated. Particular interest was paid to behaviours which may have an impact on errors committed by dogs at work in a scent lineup and thus on the reliability of the canine identification of humans on the base of scent. Signif...

Information scent of hyperlinks, that is the user’s assessment of semantic relevance of navigation options in a webpage, has been identified as a critical factor in Web navigation. An important question in this context is to identify the minimum number of participants required to measure reliably information scent. A two phase study was conducted in an attempt to provide an answer to this quest...

We present an ACT-R (Anderson & Lebiere, 1998) computational model of how people navigate in a degree-of-interest (DOI) tree. The model incorporates a visual salience function that determines which part of the display to attend to next. The salience function uses visual features of the display (e.g., distances) and semantic features of labels (e.g., information scent). The model was compared ag...

Mandrills are one of the few Old World primates to show scent-marking. We combined ethological and chemical approaches to improve our understanding of this behavior in 3 zoo-managed groups. We observed the olfactory behavior performed by adults and adolescents (N = 39) for 775h. We investigated the volatile components of sternal scent-marks using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and compare...

Scent identification line-ups have been in use as a forensic tool in a number of European countries since the beginning of this century. The basic idea of identifications by dogs is generally the same in these countries: a trained dog matches the scent collected at a crime scene to the scent of a person suspected of this crime. However, there are also some marked differences between countries, ...