Enhanced Chemosensory Detection of Negative Emotions in Congenital Blindness

Figure 5

Results of the odour identification task of male sweat samples. Congenitally blind participants were significantly better than sighted controls at identifying fear from males and also had a strong tendency to be better at identifying disgust from males. None of the groups were above chance level (20%) for amusement or sexual arousal. Data presentmean ± SD. ; .