The discovery will open «new field of research» into the molecular basis of sniffing out disease, says Marie - Christine Broillet, a specialist in
olfaction from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Not exact matches
«I knew
from graduate school that
olfaction was still one of the big unknowns,» Meyer says.
THE shortlist for this year's Royal Society Prize for Science Books, which celebrates the best in popular science writing, is an impressive and diverse group that ranges
from evolutionary biology and probability to
olfaction and history.
«According to these findings, the receptor family which is important for
olfaction in recent insects evolved long after the migration of insects
from water to land,» Ewald Große - Wilde summarizes.
«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.
Dr. Nathanial Hall
from the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University joins us to describe his research on
olfaction in dogs and to answer questions like, which breeds of dogs have the best noses and do dogs really smell a million times more acutely than people?
Work
from Ensayos has been represented in exhibitions and performances at the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; the Institute for Art and
Olfaction, Los Angeles; BHQFU, New York; Puerto de Ideas, Valparaíso; Festival Cielos del Infinito, Puerto Williams, CL; Kurant, Tromsø, NO; and Psi # 22, Melbourne, AU.