Olfactory Cognition: From Perception and Memory to Environmental Odours and Neuroscience

338 Pages·2012·9.187 MB·English

by  Gesualdo M. Zuzzo, Rachel S. Herz, Benoist Schaal

Olfactory Cognition
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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
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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
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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. 2. Olfactory receptors. 3. Smell. 4. Neurobiology. I. Zucco, Gesualdo. II.
Herz, Rachel, 1963-, III. Schaal, Benoist.
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Table of contents
List of contributors ix
Foreword by Michael I. Posner xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Part I. Perception, psychophysics and odour environment
chapter 1
Is there a measurement system for odour quality? 3
Birgitta Berglund and Anders Höglund
chapter 2
There’s something in the air: Effects of beliefs and expectations
on response to environmental odors 23
Pamela Dalton
chapter 3
Psychophysical evaluation of pain and olfaction: Many commonalities
and a few significant differences 39
Richard H. Gracely
chapter 4
Olfactory comfort in close relationships: You aren’t the only one who does it 59
Donald H. McBurney, Sybil A. Streeter and Harald A. Euler
chapter 5
Olfactory perception 73
Richard J. Stevenson
vi Olfactory Cognition
Part II. Learning and memory
chapter 6
Odor memory and the special role of associative learning 95
Rachel S. Herz
chapter 7
Knowing what we smell 115
Fredrik U. Jönsson and Mats J. Olsson
chapter 8
Attending to olfactory short-term memory 137
Theresa L. White
Part III. Neuropsychology and olfactory dysfunctions
chapter 9
Olfactory function in Parkinson’s disease 155
Richard L. Doty and Hakan Tekeli
chapter 10
Remembering what the nose knows 179
Robert G. Mair
chapter 11
Olfactory impairment in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease 199
Steven Nordin
Part IV. Odor hedonic perception and development
chapter 12
The psychophysics of olfaction in the human newborn:
Habituation and cross-adaptation 221
Lewis P. Lipsitt and Carolyn Rovee-Collier
Table of contents vii
chapter 13
Emerging chemosensory preferences: Another playground
for the innate-acquired dichotomy in human cognition 237
Benoist Schaal
chapter 14
The acquisition of odour preferences via evaluative olfactory conditioning:
Historical background and state of the art 269
Gesualdo M. Zucco
dedication
Writings in remembrance of Professor Trygg Engen 295
Index 313

List of contributors
Birgitta Berglund Rachel S. Herz
Department of Psychology Department of Psychiatry
Stockholm University and Human Behavior
Frescati Hagväg, 8 Brown University
SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden) 190 Thayer Street
e-mail: [email protected] Providence, RI 02912 (USA)
e-mail: [email protected]
Pamela Dalton
Monell Chemical Senses Center Anders Höglund
3500 Market Street Department of Psychology
Philadelphia, PA 19104 (USA) Stockholm University
e-mail: [email protected] Frescati Hagväg, 8
SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
Richard L. Doty e-mail: [email protected]
Smell and Taste Center
University of Pennsylvania Fredrik U. Jönsson
School of Medicine Department of Psychology
HUP – 3400 Spruce Street Stockholm University
Philadelphia, PA 19104 (USA) Frescati Hagväg, 8
e-mail: [email protected] SE-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
e-mail: [email protected]
Harald A. Euler
Human Wissenschaften Lewis P. Lipsitt
Institute of Psychology Department of Psychology
University of Kassel Brown University
Hollandische Street 36–38 190 Thayer Street
34127 Kassel (Germany) Providence, RI 02912 (USA)
e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]
Richard H. Gracely Robert G. Mair
Center for Neurosensory Disorders Department of Psychology
2110 Old Dental Conant Hall, University of New Hampshire
University of North Carolina Durham, NH 03824 (USA)
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7455 (USA) e-mail: [email protected]
e-mail: [email protected]