PSY280H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychophysics, Aroma Compound, Olfactory Receptor Neuron
13
PSY280H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
13 documents
Document Summary
Osns - they can sense smells in much lower conc than humans. Involved in emotion and memory; explains why scents tend to have strong emotional association"s. Impossible to distinguish between sensations traveling from olfactory receptors (cn1) and those travelling from trigeminal nerve (cn4) from somatosensory receptors (e. g. crying from onions) From chemicals to smell: how can we detect so many different scents, we detect the pattern of activity across receptors. Odor hedonics: odor hedonics: the liking dimensions of odor perception, typically measured with scales pertain to an odorants perceived pleasantness, familiarity, and intensity, familiarity and intensity: tend to like odors we have smelled often before. Humans & pheromones: vno: pheromones and chemo signals, main olfactory bulb (mob): our olfactory bulb, but for animals that have two olfactory, accessory olfactory bulb (aob): smaller neural structure located behind the mob receives input from the.
