Olfactory Cognition

From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience

Editors

Gesualdo M. Zucco | University of Padova

Rachel S. Herz | Brown University, Providence

Benoist Schaal | CNRS - University of Bourgogne, Dijon

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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.

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.85

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. ix–x

Foreword: An olfactory life

Michael I. Posner | pp. xi–xiv

Preface | pp. xv–xvii

Acknowledgments | p. xix

Part I. Perception, psychophysics and odour environment

Chapter 1. Is there a measurement system for odour quality?

Birgitta Berglund and Anders Höglund | pp. 3–21

Chapter 2. There’s something in the air: Effects of beliefs and expectations on response to environmental odors

Pamela Dalton | pp. 23–38

Chapter 3. Psychophysical evaluation of pain and olfaction: Many commonalities and a few significant differences

Richard H. Gracely | pp. 39–58

Chapter 4. Olfactory comfort in close relationships: You aren’t the only one who does it

Donald H. McBurney, Sibyl A. Streeter and Harald Euler | pp. 59–72

Chapter 5. Olfactory perception

Richard J. Stevenson | pp. 73–91

Part II. Learning and memory

Chapter 6. Odor memory and the special role of associative learning

Rachel S. Herz | pp. 95–114

Chapter 7. Knowing what we smell

Fredrik U. Jönsson and Mats J. Olsson | pp. 115–135

Chapter 8. Attending to olfactory short-term memory

Theresa L. White | pp. 137–152

Part III. Neuropsychology and olfactory dysfunctions

Chapter 9. Olfactory function in Parkinson’s disease

Richard L. Doty and Hakan Tekeli | pp. 155–177

Chapter 10. Remembering what the nose knows

Robert G. Mair | pp. 179–197

Chapter 11. Olfactory impairment in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease

Steven Nordin | pp. 199–217

Part IV. Odor hedonic perception and development

Chapter 12. The psychophysics of olfaction in the human newborn: Habituation and cross-adaptation

Lewis P. Lipsitt and Carolyn Rovee-Collier | pp. 221–235

Chapter 13. Emerging chemosensory preferences: Another playground for the innate-acquired dichotomy in human cognition

Benoist Schaal | pp. 237–268

Chapter 14. The acquisition of odour preferences via evaluative olfactory conditioning: Historical background and state of the art

Gesualdo M. Zucco | pp. 269–294

Dedication. Writings in remembrance of Professor Trygg Engen | pp. 295–312

Index | pp. 313–317

“This beautiful volume is an appropriate tribute to Prof. Trygg Engen's outstanding contributions to understanding the chemical senses. It summarizes and extends Engen's analysis of olfactory perception and memory. In doing so the volume points the way to the needed synthesis of molecular, neurophysiological, evolutionary and psychophysical methods that would help realize his goals for the field.”

Michael I. Posner, Emeritus Professor, University of Oregon

“In the preface of Odor Sensation and Memory, Trygg Engen wrote in 1991: “The present approach is mainly top-down and psychological”. The book written by his students and friends to honor his memory might express the same claim. Following the triumphant success of the molecular approach and other bottom-up-oriented investigations on olfaction, the sections on perception, learning and memory, hedonic perception and development, with the richly documented analysis of the origins of olfactory preferences, all these themes evoke a faint feeling of nostalgia that fits perfectly well with the filial aim of the book.”

André Holley, Emeritus Professor, University Claude Bernard, Lyon

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