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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. (Series B)
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Olfactory Cognition
Advances in Consciousness Research (AiCR) Provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series includes (but is not limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, brain science, philosophy and linguistics. The orientation of the series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual in society. From 1999 the Series consists of two subseries that cover the most important types of contributions to consciousness studies: Series A: Theory and Method. Contributions to the development of theory and method in the study of consciousness; Series B: Research in Progress. Experimental, descriptive and clinical research in consciousness. This book is a contribution to Series B. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/aicr
Editor Maxim I. Stamenov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Editorial Board David J. Chalmers
Steven Laureys
Axel Cleeremans
George Mandler
Gordon G. Globus
John R. Searle
Christof Koch
Petra Stoerig
Australian National University Université Libre de Bruxelles University of California Irvine California Institute of Technology
University of Liège University of California at San Diego University of California at Berkeley Universität Düsseldorf
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Volume 85 Olfactory Cognition. From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal
Olfactory Cognition From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience Edited by
Gesualdo M. Zucco University of Padova
Rachel S. Herz Brown University, Providence
Benoist Schaal CNRS-University of Bourgogne, Dijon
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olfactory cognition : from perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience / edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381-589X ; v. 85) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Olfactometry.