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Smellosophy - What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
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Smellosophy - What the Nose Tells the Mind (Hardcover)
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A pioneering exploration of olfaction that upsets settled notions
of how the brain translates sensory information. Decades of
cognition research have shown that external stimuli "spark" neural
patterns in particular regions of the brain. This has fostered a
view of the brain as a space that we can map: here the brain
responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation in your left
hand. But it turns out that the sense of smell-only recently
attracting broader attention in neuroscience-doesn't work this way.
A. S. Barwich asks a deceptively simple question: What does the
nose tell the brain, and how does the brain understand it? Barwich
interviews experts in neuroscience, psychology, chemistry, and
perfumery in an effort to understand the biological mechanics and
myriad meanings of odors. She argues that it is time to stop
recycling ideas based on the paradigm of vision for the olfactory
system. Scents are often fickle and boundless in comparison with
visual images, and they do not line up with well-defined neural
regions. Although olfaction remains a puzzle, Barwich proposes that
what we know suggests the brain acts not only like a map but also
as a measuring device, one that senses and processes simple and
complex odors. Accounting for the sense of smell upsets theories of
perception philosophers have developed. In their place, Smellosophy
articulates a new model for understanding how the brain represents
sensory information.
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