Odor names refer usually to “source” object categories. For example, the smell of rose is
often described with its source category (flower). However, linguistic studies suggest that …

We showed how cognitive, semantic information modulates olfactory representations in the
brain by providing a visual word descriptor," cheddar cheese" or" body odor," during the …

The human sense of smell and the ability to detect and distinguish odors allows for the
extraction of valuable information from the environment, thereby driving human behavior …

An important challenge in olfaction research is to understand how percepts relate to the
molecular structure of stimuli. Previous psychophysical studies showed that, whereas …

Studies of patients with focal brain injury indicate that smell perception involves caudal
orbitofrontal and medial temporal cortices, but a more precise functional organization has …

Humans routinely make judgments about olfactory stimuli. However, few studies have
examined the functional neuroanatomy underlying the cognitive operations involved in such …

A growing body of research aims at solving what is often referred to as the stimulus-percept
problem in olfactory perception. Although computational efforts have made it possible to …

Semantic description of odors is a cognitively demanding task. Learning to name smells is,
however, possible with training. This study set out to examine how improvement in olfactory …

The present study aimed to investigate the effects of cognitive/emotional bias on central
nervous odor processing. Forty-five female participants were divided into three groups and …

It has been hypothesized (Lynch 1986; Aboitiz et al. 2002; Montagnini and Treves 2003) that
the mammalian cortex initially evolved as an associative structure, allowing features of the …