PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Olfactory Receptor Neuron, Olfactory Receptor, Olfactory Nerve
Document Summary
Olfaction and taste; spatial orientation and the vestibular system. Immanuel kant on smell: most important philosopher of 18th century, didn"t think smell was very important, probably due to the fact that their sewer systems were not very functionable, it"s actually very important. Ikea: companies know how to use smell to their advantage, walking into ikea, it smells like fresh wood . It"s actually fake just perfume: uses that to influence us and suggest something that is not true, attention, all senses run through the thalamus, smell doesn"t, we have very little control of what we can and cannot smell. Language: difficult to name things that have a certain smell, sex. Olfactory physiology: a look at the olfactory apparatus, genes and olfaction, multisensory perception, physical event that is processes by receptors, than the brain, chemical events, odors: olfactory sensations, chemical compounds that are . Volatile: fly through the air so it can reach your nose.
