Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition

by Edited by Catherine Rouby , Benoist Schaal , Danièle Dubois , Rémi Gervais , A. Holley

• ISBN13: 9780521790581
• ISBN10: 0521790581
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. Yet the available data on the high order cognitive implications of taste and smell are scattered among journals in many fields, with no single source synthesizing the large body of knowledge, much of which has appeared in the last decade. 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, psychophysics and functional imaging studies, genetic variation in taste, and the hedonistic dimensions of odors. The approach is integrative, combining perspectives from neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics, and is appropriate for students and researchers in all of these areas who seek an authoritative reference on olfaction, taste, and cognition.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
A Tribute to Edmond Roudnitska	xix
Section 1: A Specific Type of Cognition	1	(44)
Olfaction and Cognition: A Philosophical and Psychoanalytic View	3	(13)
Annick Le Guerer
Cognitive Aspects of Olfaction in Perfumer Practice	16	(11)
Andre Holley
The Specific Characteristics of the Sense of Smell	27	(18)
Egon Peter Koster
Section 2: Knowledge and Languages	45	(72)
Names and Categories for Odors: The Veridical Label	47	(20)
Daniele Dubois
Catherine Rouby
Nose-wise: Olfactory Metaphors in Mind	67	(15)
David Howes
Linguistic Expressions for Odors in French	82	(18)
Sophie David
Classification of Odors and Structure--Odor Relationships	100	(17)
Maurice Chastrette
Section 3: Emotion	117	(92)
Acquisition and Activation of Odor Hedonics in Everyday Situations: Conditioning and Priming Studies	119	(21)
Dirk Hermans
Frank Baeyens
Is There a Hedonic Dimension to Odors?	140	(20)
Catherine Rouby
Moustafa Bensafi
Influences of Odors on Mood and Affective Cognition	160	(18)
Rachel S. Herz
Assessing Putative Human Pheromones	178	(18)
Suma Jacob
Bethanne Zelano
Davinder J. S. Hayreh
Martha K. McClintock
Neural Correlates of Emotion Perception: From Faces to Taste	196	(13)
Mary L. Phillips
Maike Heining
Section 4: Memory	209	(82)
Testing Odor Memory: Incidental versus Intentional Learning, Implicit versus Explicit Memory	211	(20)
Sylvie Issanchou
Dominique Valentin
Claire Sulmont
Joachim Degel
Egon Peter Koster
Odor Memory: A Memory Systems Approach	231	(15)
Maria Larsson
Repetition Priming in Odor Memory	246	(15)
Mats J. Olsson
Maria Faxbrink
Fredrik U. Jonsson
Odor Memory in Alzheimer's Disease	261	(17)
Steven Nordin
Claire Murphy
Development of Odor Naming and Odor Memory from Childhood to Young Adulthood	278	(13)
Johannes Lehrner
Peter Walla
Section 5: Neural Bases	291	(98)
Odor Coding at the Periphery of the Olfactory System	293	(16)
Gilles Sicard
Human Brain Activity during the First Second after Odor Presentation	309	(15)
Bettina M. Pause
Processing of Olfactory Affective Information: Contribution of Functional Imaging Studies	324	(11)
Robert J. Zatorre
Experience-induced Changes Reveal Functional Dissociation within Olfactory Pathways	335	(15)
Nadine Ravel
Anne-Marie Mouly
Pascal Chabaud
Remi Gervais
Increased Taste Sensitivity by Familiarization to Novel Stimuli: Psychophysics, fMRI, and Electrophysiological Techniques Suggest Modulations at Peripheral and Central Levels	350	(17)
Annick Faurion
Barbara Cerf
Anne-Marie Pillias
Nathalie Boireau
The Cortical Representation of Taste and Smell	367	(22)
Edmund T. Rolls
Section 6: Individual Variations	389	(68)
New Psychophysical Insights in Evaluating Genetic Variation in Taste	391	(17)
Katharine Fast
Valerie B. Duffy
Linda M. Bartoshuk
The Individuality of Odor Perception	408	(13)
Robyn Hudson
Hans Distel
Olfactory Cognition at the Start of Life: The Perinatal Shaping of Selective Odor Responsiveness	421	(20)
Benoist Schaal
Robert Soussignan
Luc Marlier
Age-related Changes in Chemosensory Functions	441	(16)
Thomas Hummel
Stefan Heilmann
Claire Murphy
Index	457