Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition |
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| Editor:
| Schaal, Benoist
Rouby, Catherine
Holley, A.
Dubois, Danièle
Gervais, Rémi |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-79058-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $161.00 |
Book Description:
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The human organs of perception are constantly bombarded with chemicals from the environment. Our bodies have in turn developed complex processing systems, which manifest themselves in our emotions, memory, and language. This book presents the first multidisciplinary synthesis of the literature in olfactory and gustatory cognition. Leading experts have written chapters on many facets of taste and smell, including odor memory, cortical representations, psychoph ysics and functional...
More DescriptionThe human organs of perception are constantly bombarded with chemicals from the environment. Our bodies have in turn developed complex processing systems, which manifest themselves in our emotions, memory, and language. This book presents the first multidisciplinary synthesis of the literature in olfactory and gustatory cognition. Leading experts have written chapters on many facets of taste and smell, including odor memory, cortical representations, psychoph ysics and functional imaging studies, genetic variation in taste, and the hedonistic dimensions of odors.