Words expressing odors

Words expressing finality.

An odor is not worth a thousand words: from multidimensional odors to unidimensional odor objects.

Olfaction is often referred to as a multidimensional sense. It is multidimensional in that approximately 1000 different receptor types, each tuned to particular odor aspects, together contribute to the olfactory percept. In humans, however, this percept is nearly unidimensional. Humans can detect and discriminate countless odorants, but can identify few by name. The one thing humans can and do ...

The color of odors.

The interaction between the vision of colors and odor determination is investigated through lexical analysis of experts' wine tasting comments. The analysis shows that the odors of a wine are, for the most part, represented by objects that have the color of the wine. The assumption of the existence of a perceptual illusion between odor and color is confirmed by a psychophysical experiment. A wh...

Two minds about odors.

I t has long been suggested that synchronous fast oscillations in central sensory systems facilitate formation of neural assemblies that represent sensory objects. This hypothesis derives from the olfactory system, where odorevoked fast oscillations of 40 Hz and above in the local field potential of the mammalian olfactory bulb (OB) were first reported by Adrian (1). Similar oscillations ( 20 H...

Words, words, words

‘Words, words, words.’ This was Hamlet’s reply to Polonius’ question, ‘What do you read, my lord?’ (Shakespeare, 1603) [1]. By repeating the word three times, Hamlet suggests that what he is reading is meaningless. Before launching the journal Archives of Public Health, we have asked ourselves: ‘Do we not already produce too many words too many journals?’ or in other words ‘What is the added va...