Irritation and negative valence are closely associated in perception. However, these
perceptual aspects can be dissociated in olfaction where irritation can accompany both …

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 …

The majority of existing functional MRI studies on olfactory perception have addressed the
relationship between stimulus features and the intensity of activity in separate regions …

The entorhinal cortex is a brain area with multiple reciprocal connections to the
hippocampus, amygdala, perirhinal cortex, olfactory bulb and piriform cortex. As such, it is …

Paradoxically, attempts to visualize odorant-induced functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) activation in the human have yielded activations in secondary olfactory regions but …

Although it is known that visual imagery is accompanied by activity in visual cortical areas,
including primary visual cortex, whether olfactory imagery exists remains controversial. Here …

Arousal and valence are proposed to represent fundamental dimensions of emotion. The
neural substrates for processing these aspects of stimuli are studied widely, with recent …

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 …

Affective experience has been described in terms of two primary dimensions: intensity and
valence. In the human brain, it is intrinsically difficult to dissociate the neural coding of these …

Given the strong relationship between human olfaction and emotion, it is not surprising that
numerous studies have investigated human response to hedonic and arousing qualities of …