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Up the nose of the beholder? Aesthetic perception in olfaction as a decision-making process [PDF]
, 2014 Is the sense of smell a source of aesthetic perception? Traditional philosophical aesthetics has centered on vision and audition but eliminated smell for its subjective and inherently affective character.
Bailey Aubrey +7 more
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Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2011 Olfaction represents an ancient, evolutionarily critical physiologic system. In humans, chemosensation mediates safety, nutrition, sensation of pleasure, and general well-being. Factors that affect human olfaction included structural aspects of the nasal cavity that can modulate airflow and therefore odorant access to the olfactory cleft, and ...
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Biotechnology Journal, 2010 AbstractSensing their environment is a crucial ability of all life forms. In higher eukaryotes the sensing of airborne volatile compounds, or olfaction, is well developed. In plants, slime moulds and yeast there is also compelling evidence that these organisms can smell their environment and respond accordingly.
Nijland R, Burgess JG
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Why human olfaction should not be modeled on theories and tasks of vision
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 In this paper we analyze some key concepts and problems in olfaction and argue that many concepts borrowed from vision are not helpful in elucidating the functions of human olfaction. This is illustrated with several examples.
Per Møller, Egon P. Köster
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Astrocytic Regulation of Neural Circuits Underlying Behaviors
Cells, 2021 Astrocytes, characterized by a satellite-like morphology, are the most abundant type of glia in the central nervous system. Their main functions have been thought to be limited to providing homeostatic support for neurons, but recent studies have ...
Sun-Nyoung Hwang +3 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2021 Cisplatin is a lifesaving chemotherapeutic drug with marked ototoxic adverse effects. Cisplatin-induced hearing loss affects a significant part of cancer-surviving patients and is an unmet clinical need with important socioeconomic consequences ...
German Nacher-Soler +10 more
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2011 In animals, emotional memory is classically assessed through pavlovian fear conditioning in which a neutral novel stimulus (conditioned stimulus) is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus.
Chloe eHegoburu +11 more
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Perceived synchronization of olfactory multimedia [PDF]
, 2010 This is the post-print version of this Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2010 IEEEThe concept of synchronization is of fundamental importance in multimedia systems and applications.
Ademoye, OA, Ghinea, G
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Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond [PDF]
, 2020 The impact of the olfactory sense is regularly apparent across development. The foetus is bathed in amniotic fluid that conveys the mother’s chemical ecology.
Durand, Karine +4 more
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Sensors, 2019 Emergency personnel, such as firefighters, bomb technicians, and urban search and rescue specialists, can be exposed to a variety of extreme hazards during the response to natural and human-made disasters. In many of these scenarios, a risk factor is the
Han Fan +3 more
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