Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition

This book examines olfactory and gustatory cognition, including chapters on odor memory, genetic variation in taste, and the hedonistic dimensions of odors.

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

9780521020978, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 6 October 2005

488 pages, 49 b/w illus. 12 tables
24.4 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.772 kg

'… an excellent treatise … I would recommend this book to all chemosensory scientists, as well as to psychologists and physiologists …' Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

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.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
A tribute to Edmond Roudnitska
1. Olfaction and cognition: a philosophical and psychoanalytical view Annick Le Guérer
2. Cognitive aspects of olfaction in perfumer practice André Holley
3. The specific characteristics of the sense of smell Egon Peter Köster
4. Names and categories for odors: the 'veridical label' Danièle Dubois
5. Nose-wise: olfactory metaphors in mind David Howes
6. Linguistic expressions of odors in French Sophie David
7. Classification of odors and structure-odor relationships Maurice Chastrette
8. The acquisition and activation of odor hedonics in everyday situations: conditioning and priming studies Dick Hermans and Frank Baeyens
9. Is there a hedonic dimension of odors? Catherine Rouby and Moustafa Bensafi
10. The influence of odors on mood and affective cognition Rachel S. Herz
11. Assessing putative human pheromones Suma Jacob, Bethanne Zelano, Davinder J. S. Hayreh and Martha K. McClintock
12. The neural correlates of emotion perception: from faces to taste Mary L. Phillips and Maike Heining
13. Testing odor memory: incidental vs. intentional learning implicit vs. explicit memory Sylvie Issanchou, Dominique Valentin, Claire Sulmont, Joachim Degel and Egon Peter Köster
14. Odor memory: a memory systems approach Maria Larsson
15. Repetition priming in odor memory Mats J. Olsson, Maria Faxbrink and Fredrik U. Jönsson
16. Odor memory in Alzheimer's disease Steven Nordin and Claire Murphy
17. Development of odor naming and odor memory from childhood to young adulthood Johannes Lehrner and Peter Walla
18. Odor coding at the periphery of the olfactory system Gilles Sicard
19. On human brain activity within the first second after odor presentation Bettina M. Pause
20. Processing of olfactory affective information: contribution of functional imaging studies Robert J. Zatorre
21. Experience-induced changes reveal functional dissociation within olfactory pathways Nadine Ravel, Anne-Marie Mouly, Pascal Chabaud and Rémi Gervais
22. Increased taste sensitivity by familiarization to 'novel' stimuli Annick Faurion, Barbara Cerf, Anne-Maria Pillias and Nathalie Boireau
23. The cortical representation of taste and smell Edmund T. Rolls
24. New psychophysical insights in evaluating genetic variation in taste Katharine Fast, Valerie B. Duffy and Linda M. Bartoshuk
25. The individuality of odor perception Robyn Hudson and Hans DisTel
26. Olfactory cognition at the start of life: the perinatal shaping of selective odor responsiveness Benoist Schaal, Robert Soussignan and Luc Marlier
27. Age-related changes of chemosensory functions Thomas Hummel, S. Heilman and Claire Murphy
Index.

Subject Areas: Neurosciences [PSAN]