An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year
\”This is a special book It teaches readers a lot about olfaction. It teaches us even more about what philosophy can be.\”
-Times Literary Supplement
\”Lively, authoritative Aims to rehabilitate smell’s neglected and marginalized status.\”
-Wall Street Journal
\”Barwich argues that we could discover far more about consciousness if we would only relinquish our old-school fixation on sight.\”
-Harper’s
\”Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on behavior and emotion, and the physical and behavioral details that determine what odors we inhale, furnishing broad insights into the psychology of olfaction.\”
-Science
Decades of cognition research have shown that external stimuli \”spark\” neural patterns in particular regions of the brain. We think of the brain as a space we can map: here it responds to faces, there it perceives a sensation. But the sense of smell-only recently attracting broader attention in neuroscience-doesn’t work this way. So what does the nose tell the brain, and how does the brain understand it?
A. S. Barwich turned to experts in neuroscience, psychology, chemistry, and perfumery in an effort to understand the mechanics and meaning of odors. She discovered that scents are often fickle and do not line up with well-defined neural regions. Upending existing theories of perception, Smellosophy offers a new model for understanding how the brain senses and processes odor.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Imprint: Harvard U P
Publication date: 11/10/2022
SCORPIO BOOKS
Five Lane, The BNZ Centre
120 Hereford Street
Christchurch Central City
Ph: (03) 379 2882
TELLING TALES
Five Lanes, The BNZ Centre
101-111 Cashel St
Christchurch Central City
Ph: (03) 741 3309
FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CANTERBURY
($4 RURAL SURCHARGE)
FREE NZ SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $100