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Smellosophy : What the Nose Tells the Mind /
For decades neuroscientists understood sensory perception as a matter of external stimuli "sparking" regions of the brain. But this view has a key flaw: odors don't line up consistently with the neural map. A. S. Barwich explores the new science of smell and urges us to rethink theori...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Nosedive
- 1. History of the Nose
- 2. Modern Olfaction: At the Crossroads
- 3. Minding the Nose: Odors in Cognition
- 4. How Behavior Senses Chemistry: The Affective Nature of Smell
- 5. On Air: From the Nose to the Brain
- 6. Molecules to Perception
- 7. Fingerprinting the Bulb
- 8. Beyond Mapping, to Measuring Smells
- 9. Perception as a Skill
- 10. The Distillate: The Nose as a Window into Mind and Brain
- Appendix: List of Interviewees
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- Index