Even though most of the socially anxious participants could not smell the chemosensory stimuli, the processing of anxiety-related chemosignals was faster and recruited more neuronal resources than the processing of sport-related chemosignals. Similar to non-socially anxious participants, the large potentials in response to chemosensory anxiety signals could be observed in female participants only. However, the faster processing of chemosensory anxiety signals was more pronounced in males.
