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Olfactory Cognition : From Perception and Memory to Environmental Odours and Neuroscience.
Title:
Olfactory Cognition : From Perception and Memory to Environmental Odours and Neuroscience.
Author:
Zucco, Gesualdo M.
ISBN:
9789027274649
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (337 pages)
Series:
Advances in Consciousness Research
Contents:
Olfactory Cognition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword: An olfactory life -- References -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Perception, psychophysics and odour environment -- 1. Is there a measurement system for odour quality? -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical considerations for odour-space measurements -- 2. The odour space: Four major examples of database research on odorants -- 3. The odour space: Ways of measuring odour quality -- 4. The odour space: Odour quality and air quality -- 5. Summary conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2. There's something in the air: Effects of beliefs and expectations on response to environmental od -- 1. Odors and well-being: Historical and current perspectives -- 2. Expectation effects on odor perception and symptoms -- 3. Top-down & bottom-up processing of odor information -- 4. Top-down mechanisms underlying adverse response to environmental odors: mental models, chemical e -- 5. Odor exposure, autonomic arousal and conditioned responses -- 6. Factors associated with adverse response to environmental odors -- 7. Summary and conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3. Psychophysical evaluation of pain and olfaction: Many commonalities and a few significant differe -- Introduction -- 1. Laboratory measures of detection threshold -- 2. Measures of suprathreshold sensation -- 3. Nonverbal suprathreshold measurement: Cross modality matching -- 4. Subjective judgment, behavior and physiology -- 5. Hedonic psychophysics: Evaluating the pleasantness/unpleasantness of evoked sensations -- 6. Measurement of sensory quality -- 7. Measuring changes in sensory function -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Olfactory comfort in close relationships: You aren't the only one who does it -- Introduction.

1. Smelling the clothing of loved ones -- 2. The relationship between olfactory comfort and attachment -- 3. Another attachment-related behavior: Displayed photos -- 4. An experimental test of olfactory attachment -- 5. Love styles and olfactory comfort -- 6. Summary and conclusion -- References -- 5. Olfactory perception -- Introduction -- 1. Perception -- 2. Olfactory perception -- 3. Discussion -- Acknowlegements -- References -- Part II. Learning and memory -- 6. Odor memory and the special role of associative learning -- Introduction -- 1. Memory for odors -- 2. Odor-evoked memory -- 3. The uniqueness of odor memory -- 4. The special role of associative learning -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- 7. Knowing what we smell -- Introduction -- 1. Accounts of odor identification failure -- 2. Cued identification -- 3. Metacognitive aspects on odor naming -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowlegements -- References -- 8. Attending to olfactory short-term memory -- Introduction -- 1. Attention -- 2. General attentional model -- 3. Olfactory attention may be unique -- 4. Fitting olfactory information into an attentional model -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part III. Neuropsychology and olfactory dysfunctions -- 9. Olfactory function in Parkinson's disease -- Introduction -- 1. The olfactory phenotype -- 2. Physiological underpinnings -- 3. Environmental and genetic determinants -- 4. Other forms of parkinsonism and related disorders -- 5. Summary and conclusion -- Reference -- 10. Remembering what the nose knows -- 1. The neuropsychology of odor perception and memory - human studies -- 2. The neuropsychology of odor perception and memory - animal studies -- 3. Remembering what the nose knows -- References -- 11. Olfactory impairment in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease -- Introduction -- 1. Normal aging -- 2. Alzheimer's disease -- 3. Conclusion -- References.

Part IV. Odor hedonic perception and development -- 12. The psychophysics of olfaction in the human newborn: Habituation and cross-adaptation -- Introduction -- 1. Developmental changes in newborn olfactory thresholds -- 2. Newborn habituation to odorants -- 3. Direct psychophysical scaling of stimulus intensity in newborns -- 4. Newborn psychophysical scaling of stimulus intensity -- 5. Cross-adaptation and cross-facilitation effects -- 6. The adaptive role of olfactory experience for newborn mammals -- 7. Summary -- References -- 13. Emerging chemosensory preferences: Another playground for the innate-acquired dichotomy in human -- Introduction -- 1. Two views on the causes of emerging olfactory preferences -- 2. Back to the facts: Do human neonates express odor preferences at all? -- 3. How far do neonatal responses to chemostimuli depend on learning? -- 4. How far are neonatal responses to odors innate? -- 5. How do odorants become pleasant/unpleasant odors in newborn organisms? -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 14. The acquisition of odour preferences via evaluative olfactory conditioning: Historical backgroun -- Introduction -- 1. Classical and evaluative conditioning: General concepts -- 2. Verbal and attitude conditioning: The earliest demonstrations of evaluative conditioning -- 3. Domains of evaluative olfactory conditioning -- 4. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Writings in remembrance of Professor Trygg Engen -- Birgitta Berglund -- William S. Cain -- Pamela Dalton -- Richard L. Doty -- Richard Gracely -- Rachel S. Herz -- Lew Lipsitt -- Robert Mair -- Donald McBurney -- Mats J. Olsson and Steven Nordin -- Carolyn Rovee-Collier -- Benoist Schaal -- Richard Stevenson -- Theresa White -- Gesualdo M. Zucco -- Index.
Abstract:
This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours on beliefs and expectations. The second addresses cognitive processes in olfaction, how odours are interpreted, lexicalized, associated with contexts and remembered. The third focuses on the cerebral bases of olfactory awareness and the neuropsychological investigation of olfaction with special emphasis on olfactory dysfunctions, and the last concerns affective and developmental processes in olfaction. The aim in producing this book is that it will help promote further research in olfactory cognition and attract new inquisitive scientists to the field. The volume will be a useful resource for academics, students, and professionals who study olfaction, as well as to scientists who work in the domains of perception, cognitive neuroscience and environmental psychology more broadly.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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