Smellosophy : what the nose tells the mind / A. S. Barwich.
Smellosophy : what the nose tells the mind / A. S. Barwich.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/3229
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English
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xi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
History of the nose -- Modern olfaction, at the crossroads -- Minding the nose, odors in cognition -- Affecting the nose, odors in behavior -- On air, from the nose to the brain -- Molecules to perception -- Fingerprinting the bulb -- Beyond mapping, to measuring smells -- Perception as a skill -- T...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2020.
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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 pe...
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Smellosophy : what the nose tells the mind / A. S. Barwich.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3229
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74VKamq4eKp3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKamq4eKp3
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0674983696 hardcover
9780674983694 hardcover
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612.825
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991024332316802626
