Biophysics of the Sense of Smell
Author : Minze Stuiver
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Smell
ISBN :
Author : Minze Stuiver
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Smell
ISBN :
Author : George J. Siegel
Publisher : Lippincott Raven
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Illustrations by Lorie M. Gavulic, MFA Sponsored by the American Society for Neurochemistry.
Author : Gary K. Beauchamp
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1997-09-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0080542239
Tasting and Smelling presents a comprehensive overview to research on these two important modes of perception. The book offers a review of research findings on the biophysics, neurophysiology, and psychophysicsof both senses, as well as discussing the emotional component associated with taste and smell, and clinical disorders affecting each of these two senses. Tasting and Smelling answers how odors and flavors are perceived, why we have favorites, and what happens when our senses go awry. This book is of interest to the researcher in perception, cognition, or neurophysiology.
Author : Roman R Poznanski
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814644277
The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world. While various scientists and philosophers approach the problem from their own unique perspectives and in the terms of their own respective fields, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach attempts a consilience across disparate disciplines to explain how it is possible that an objective brain produces subjective experience.This volume unites the crème de la crème of physicists, neuroscientists, and psychiatrists in the attempt to understand consciousness through a foundational approach encompassing ontological, evolutionary, neurobiological, and Freudian interpretations with the focus on conscious phenomena occurring in the brain. By integrating the perspectives of these diverse disciplines with the latest research and theories on the biophysics of the brain, the book tries to explain how consciousness can be an adaptive and causal element in the natural world.
Author : David G. Laing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3642762239
Often being vastly underrated the human sense of smell plays an essential role in our life, e.g. in food acceptance, fragrance appreciation, and as a warning device for spoiled food, toxic gases and the presence of fire. The book provides a multidisciplinary up-to-date review of the structure and function of the sense of smell and of how it is influenced by the environment and diseases. It is divided into the following 5 sections: - Anatomy, Physiology and Chemistry - Measurement of OlfactoryResponses - Development and Senescense - Basic Characteristics of Human Olfaction - Clinical and Health Aspects of Olfaction.
Author : Richard L. Doty
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1118139224
The largest collection of basic, clinical, and applied knowledge on the chemical senses ever compiled in one volume, the third edition of Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation encompass recent developments in all fields of chemosensory science, particularly the most recent advances in neurobiology, neuroscience, molecular biology, and modern functional imaging techniques. Divided into five main sections, the text covers the senses of smell and taste as well as sensory integration, industrial applications, and other chemosensory systems. This is essential reading for clinicians and academic researchers interested in basic and applied chemosensory perception.
Author : W. McCartney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3642876994
If we possessed a true, well established and undoubted theory concerning the function of the nerves in the human body, the principles of smell would be much easier to understand. So far, we do not know for certain whether the action of nerves takes place by means of a subtle fluid, which is instantaneously conveyed from the beginning of the nerves to their ends, or whether, as some think, some sort of vibratory movements is produced in them, or whether the stimulation should be considered as the only sufficient cause, to say nothing of the new opinion concerning the electrical force. Linnaeus Although much has been learned since the time of Linnaeus, it is still true that we do not yet possess "a true, well established and undoubted" theory of olfaction. The literature of the subject, however, has long been rather voluminous - the frequent assertions to the contrary are simply untrue - and is now growing rapidly. Moreover, quite a number of symposia on olfaction (or olfaction and taste) have been held during recent years. For example, in the U. S. A.
Author : J. A. V. Butler
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 1483280519
Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
Author : Y. Zotterman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 148322337X
International Symposium Series, Volume 1: Olfaction and Taste covers the proceedings of the First International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste, held at the Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, Sweden on September 1962. This symposium aims to explore the physiological and psychological aspects of olfaction and taste. This book is composed of 29 chapters and begins with the surveys of the physiology and morphology of the sensory receptors in certain groups of animals. The succeeding chapters describe the fundamental substrates of taste and the effect of temperature change on the response of taste. These topics are followed by discussions on the human taste nerves, taste stimulation and preference behavior, some thalamic and cortical mechanisms of taste, and the role of taste and smell in food and water regulation. The final chapters consider the basic principles of human body’s thermoreceptors and the gustatory relay in the medulla. This book is of great value to researchers in the fields of olfaction and taste and related fields.
Author : Lloyd M. Beidler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3642651267
Olfaction is involved intimately in two of the most basic functions of animals: food intake and reproduction. There are also many other involvements of olfaction in animal behavior, not the least being communication. The authors of this volume have collected and evaluated the comparative anatomy, electron microscopy, electrophysiology, genetics, psychology, chemistry, and biophysics of the olfactory system and then indicated their roles in animal behavior. The importance of olfaction in the everyday life of an animal is just being realized fully and recent years have brought forth a great surge of research in this area. The diverse dis ciplines that contribute to our understanding of olfaction make the development of this volume rewarding for those working in this field. The olfactory system's very high sensitivity and its great power of molecular discrimination interests many chemists and physicists. Data from the study of both vertebrates and insects show that only one molecule of certain odors is necessary to stimulate a single olfactory receptor! The underlying physicochemical events are not yet understood. Also, many mammals can discriminate quickly the difference between two odors of similar structure. Thus the olfactory epithelium and the more centrally located neural components present the ultimate in chemical detection and analysis by a biological system. The principles involved are probably common to those of many other organs.