Olfaction, taste, and cognition / edited by Catherine Rouby ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rouby, Catherine, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taste.

Smell.

Cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Smell.

Cognition.

Taste.

Physical Description:

xx, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The human organs of perception are continually being bombarded with chemicals from the environment. Our bodies have in turn developed complex processing systems that manifest themselves in our emotions, memory, and language. Yet the available data on the high-order cognitive implications of taste and smell are scattered among journals in many fields, with no single source synthesizing the large body of knowledge, much of which has appeared in the past decade. This book presents the first multidisciplinary synthesis of the literature in olfactory and gustatory cognition. The book is conveniently divided into sections, including linguistic representations, emotion, memory, neural bases, and individual variation. Leading experts have written chapters on many facets of taste and smell, including odor memory, cortical representations, psychophysics and functional imaging studies, genetic variation in taste, and the hedonistic dimensions of odors. The approach is integrative, combining perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics, and is appropriate for students and researchers in all of these areas who seek the authoritative reference on olfaction, taste, and cognition.

Contents:

Section 1 A Specific Type of Cognition 1

1 Olfaction and Cognition: A Philosophical and Psychoanalytic View / Annick Le Guerer 3

2 Cognitive Aspects of Olfaction in Perfumer Practice / Andre Holley 16

3 The Specific Characteristics of the Sense of Smell / Egon Peter Koster 27

Section 2 Knowledge and Languages 45

4 Names and Categories for Odors: The Veridical Label / Daniele Dubois, Catherine Rouby 47

5 Nose-wise: Olfactory Metaphors in Mind / David Howes 67

6 Linguistic Expressions for Odors in French / Sophie David 82

7 Classification of Odors and Structure

Odor Relationships / Maurice Chastrette 100

Section 3 Emotion 117

8 Acquisition and Activation of Odor Hedonics in Everyday Situations: Conditioning and Priming Studies / Dirk Hermans, Frank Baeyens 119

9 Is There a Hedonic Dimension to Odors? / Catherine Rouby, Moustafa Bensafi 140

10 Influences of Odors on Mood and Affective Cognition / Rachel S. Herz 160

11 Assessing Putative Human Pheromones / Suma Jacob, Bethanne Zelano, Davinder J. S. Hayreh, Martha K. McClintock 178

12 Neural Correlates of Emotion Perception: From Faces to Taste / Mary L. Phillips, Maike Heining 196

Section 4 Memory 209

13 Testing Odor Memory: Incidental versus Intentional Learning, Implicit versus Explicit Memory / Sylvie Issanchou, Dominique Valentin, Claire Sulmont, Joachim Degel, Egon Peter Koster 211

14 Odor Memory: A Memory Systems Approach / Maria Larsson 231

15 Repetition Priming in Odor Memory / Mats J. Olsson, Maria Faxbrink, Fredrik U. Jonsson 246

16 Odor Memory in Alzheimer's Disease / Steven Nordin, Claire Murphy 261

17 Development of Odor Naming and Odor Memory from Childhood to Young Adulthood / Johannes Lehrner, Peter Walla 278

Section 5 Neural Bases 291

18 Odor Coding at the Periphery of the Olfactory System / Gilles Sicard 293

19 Human Brain Activity during the First Second after Odor Presentation / Bettina M. Pause 309

20 Processing of Olfactory Affective Information: Contribution of Functional Imaging Studies / Robert J. Zatorre 324

21 Experience-induced Changes Reveal Functional Dissociation within Olfactory Pathways / Nadine Ravel, Anne-Marie Mouly, Pascal Chabaud, Remi Gervais 335

22 Increased Taste Sensitivity by Familiarization to Novel Stimuli: Psychophysics, fMRI, and Electrophysiological Techniques Suggest Modulations at Peripheral and Central Levels / Annick Faurion, Barbara Cerf, Anne-Marie Pillias, Nathalie Boireau 350

23 The Cortical Representation of Taste and Smell / Edmund T. Rolls 367

Section 6 Individual Variations 389

24 New Psychophysical Insights in Evaluating Genetic Variation in Taste / Katharine Fast, Valerie B. Duffy, Linda M. Bartoshuk 391

25 The Individuality of Odor Perception / Robyn Hudson, Hans Distel 408

26 Olfactory Cognition at the Start of Life: The Perinatal Shaping of Selective Odor Responsiveness / Benoist Schaal, Robert Soussignan, Luc Marlier 421

27 Age-related Changes in Chemosensory Functions / Thomas Hummel, Stefan Heilmann, Claire Murphy 441.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521790581

OCLC:

47838977

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