Olfactory Cognition

Name: Olfactory Cognition | From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience
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From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience

Gesualdo M. Zucco Rachel S. Herz Benoist Schaal(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 28. März 2012

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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
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