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Title Olfactory cognition : from perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience / edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz, and Benoist Schaal.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 317 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Advances in consciousness research ; 85
Advances in consciousness research ; 85.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Perception, psychophysics and odour environment -- pt. 2. Learning and memory -- pt. 3. Neuropsychology and olfactory dysfunctions -- pt. 4. Odor hedonic perception and development.
Summary 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 emphas.
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Subject Olfactometry.
Olfactometry.
Olfactory receptors.
Olfactory receptors.
Smell.
Smell.
Neurobiology.
Neurobiology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Zucco, Gesualdo.
Herz, Rachel, 1963-
Schaal, Benoist.
Other Form: Print version: Olfactory cognition. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 9789027213518 (DLC) 2012002091 (OCoLC)775420107
ISBN 9789027274649 (electronic book)
9027274649 (electronic book)
1280497505
9781280497506
9789027213518
9027213518
Standard No. 9786613592736