Sentences with phrase «human olfaction»

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

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Olfaction in the development of social preferences in the human neonate.

Studies seeking subtle signs of selection in the DNA of humans and other primates have identified dozens of genes, in particular those involved in host - pathogen interactions, reproduction, sensory systems such as olfaction and taste, and more.

The combination of both determines important decisions, such as in humans, where it is known that people use olfaction to select partners,» he adds.

When triggered, Orco causes every type of odor cell to fire, overstimulating the bug's olfaction system and disrupting its ability to sniff out humans — or anything else.

All of this has led Jim and me to wonder: Is there a relationship between olfaction and language, that famous product of the human cerebral cortex?

Nevertheless, it is clear that olfaction is important in flavor perception, and it has been argued that with a greater amount of the brain devoted to olfaction, humans may in many ways equal other animals in their olfactory abilities (14).

Now that Mainland et al have published «The missense of smell: functional variability in the human odorant receptor repertoire» and Foote et al have published «Tracking niche variation over millennial timescales in sympatric killer whale lineages,» the similarities at the top of the aquatic and terrestrial food chains attest to the power of conserved molecular mechanisms to link cause and effect across all species via olfaction and odor receptors, which is what I detailed in the review I submitted last week.

«Socioaffective neuroscience and psychology may progress more quickly by keeping these apparent facts in mind: Olfaction and odor receptors provide a clear evolutionary trail that can be followed from unicellular organisms to insects to humans (Keller et al., 2007; Kohl, 2007; Villarreal, 2009; Vosshall, Wong, & Axel, 2000).»

This project provides the opportunity to record intracranial LFP signals from the olfactory as well as the limbic regions of the human brain while patients participate in various olfaction - based behavioral paradigms.

In an interdisciplinary collaboration, the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine's Working Dog Center (photo above courtesy of University of Pennsylvania), the School of Arts and Science's Department of Physics and Astronomy, Penn Medicine's Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and the Monell Chemical Senses Center have joined together for a research investigation using canine olfaction, along with chemical and nanotechnology analysis, to detect early - stage human ovarian cancer.

Human / Computer Interaction; Physical Computing; Extended Instruments; Multi - Sensory Display and Input: Olfaction, Proprioception, Biofeedback, EEG / EKG Interfaces; Expressive Interfaces for Differently - Abled Persons; Interactive Movement and Dance;

While the front part of a dog's nose is almost entirely committed to respiration, the rest is committed to olfaction — the sense of smell — and since there are hundreds of millions more olfactory receptors in a dog's nose compared to a human's nose, a dog is able to smell more and detect a scent in much smaller quantities: «This means two things: A dog definitely experiences smells, odors — volatile molecules — that we don't,» Alexandra Horowitz, assistant professor at Barnard College and author of Inside of a Dog, told Modern Farmer.