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 …

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

It is widely assumed that the thalamus is functionally irrelevant for the sense of smell.
Although animal studies suggest that the mediodorsal (MD) thalamus links primary olfactory …

This study investigated human BOLD responses in primary and higher order olfactory
cortices following presentation of short-and long-duration odorant stimuli using a 3-T MR …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) enables us to visualise neuronal activation
of the brain to a given stimulus, be it a simple stimulation paradigm or a complex task. More …

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

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 …

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 …

Understanding how the human brain translates sensory impressions into conscious
percepts is a key challenge of neuroscience research. Work in this area has overwhelmingly …

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 …