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.

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.