Smellosophy : : What the Nose Tells the Mind / / A. S. Barwich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Barwich, A. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674245426; 9783110690057
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674245426
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: A. S. Barwich.

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 theories of mind and brain inspired by the mapping model.