Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition

by Catherine Rouby and Benoist Schaal

Book Overview

The human organs of perception are constantly bombarded with chemicals from the environment. Our bodies have in turn developed complex processing systems, which manifest themselves in our emotions, memory, and language. Yet the available data on the high order cognitive implications of taste and smell are scattered among journals in many fields, with no single source synthesizing the large body of knowledge, much of which has appeared in the last...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521020972
• ISBN13: 9780521020978
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.6"