[BIC-announce] FW: Reminder: Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience TODAY - Why you don't care about smell - but should

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew
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Subject: Reminder: Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience TODAY

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Tyler Lorig, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA, USA


Why you don't care about smell - but should


Thursday, April 6th, 2006
W201
3801 University Street
1:30 p.m. 


Abstract
The sense of smell is one of the least studied of the senses and is often regarded as a primitive vestige of our mammalian heritage.  
While the olfactory bulb has been the subject of important investigations concerning receptor genetics, the sense of smell is not considered of much importance to humans. Recent evidence challenges this view. Odors do tend to alter human behavior, mood, and cognition and may do so without one's awareness. These studies will be reviewed and other studies will be discussed that show a rather specific neural interaction between odor perception and symbolic problem solving.

http://psych.wlu.edu/TLorig.html 

Host: Marilyn Jones-Gotman
www.mni.mcgill.ca/cog/jonesgotman/