PSY 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Moving Block, Oculomotor Apraxia, Premotor Cortex
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Smells land on an odour space according to how pleasant they are. It is ad hoc because you are getting other people to report their own perceptions of where the smells should be located. Frontal cortex involvement for conscious perception of smell. Where the signals go from the nose. Olfactory bulb and tract then go to the primary olfactory area then to the secondary olfactory. Stays ipsilateral in the brain area (olfacofrontal cortex) where flavour is perceived. Connection between sensory receptors and brain are ipsilateral. Suggests that smell is an evolutionary older sense that we depended a lot on because there are less synapses on this path. Hypothalamus and amygdala (emotional aspects of smell) Hippocampus (odour memory) (certain smells connected to certain memories) Tested people in conditions where they smelled different odors. Then they were asked to recall something / memory that was best associated with that smell. Then looked at pictures of that associated memory.
