Learning to Smell
Learning to Smell Written by a neurobiologist and a psychologist, this volume presents a new theory of olfactory perception. Wilson and Richard J. Drawing on research in neuroscience, physiology, and…
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Learning to Smell
Written by a neurobiologist and a psychologist, this volume presents a new theory of olfactory perception. Wilson and Richard J. Drawing on research in neuroscience, physiology, and ethology, Donald A.
Here, the authors hold that olfaction is generally not a simple physiochemical process, but rather a plastic process that is strongly tied to memory. Stevenson address the fundamental question of how we navigate through a world of chemical encounters and provide a compelling alternative to the reception-centric view of olfaction.The major research challenge in olfaction is determining how the brain discriminates one smell from another. They find the traditional approach--which involves identifying how particular features of a chemical stimulus are represented in the olfactory system--to be at odds with historical data and with a growing body of neurobiological and psychological