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Olfaction, taste, and cognition

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Major gene families in humans and their evolutionary history

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Multigene families -- Evolution -- Olfaction -- Taste -- Hemoglobin -- Birth-and-death evolution -- Odor structure -- Olfactory receptors -- Sensory receptors.…”
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Learning to smell olfactory perception from neurobiology to behavior / by Wilson, Donald A. (Donald Alan), 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Index -- Preface -- The function of the olfactory system in animals and humans -- A historical and comparative perspective on theoretical approaches to olfaction -- Receptive mechanisms -- The relationship between stimulus intensity and perceptual quality -- Odor quality discrimination in nonhuman animals -- Odor quality discrimination in humans -- Odor memory -- Implications -- Bibliography.…”
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Untimely matter in the time of Shakespeare by Harris, Jonathan Gil

Table of Contents: “…Reading matter : George Herbert and the East-West palimpsests of The temple -- Performing history : East-West palimpsests in William Shakespeare's second Henriad -- The writing on the wall : London's old Jewry and John Stow's urban palimpsest -- The smell of gunpowder : Macbeth and the palimpsests of olfaction -- Touching matters : Margaret Cavendish's and Hélène Cixous's palimpsested bodies -- Crumpled handkerchiefs : William Shakespeare's and Michel Serres's palimpsested time.…”
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The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Section I Methodology; 1 Philosophy of Religion From the Margins: A Theoretical Analysis and Focus Group Study; 2 That We May Be Whole: Doing Philosophy of Religion With the Whole Self; Section II Religious Epistemology and Experience; 3 Epistemic Injustice and Religious Experience; 4 Smelling God: Olfaction as Religious Experience; 5 'Not My People': Jewish-Christian Ethics and Divine Reversals in Response to Injustice; Section III Non-Human Animals…”
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The Routledge handbook of visual impairment / by Ravenscroft, John

Table of Contents: “…ConclusionReferences; Chapter 3: Psychological representation of visual impairment; Introduction; Compensatory hypothesis; Auditory processing; Somatosensory processing; Olfaction; General-loss hypothesis; Impact of perception on higher cognition; Critical periods for visual development: evidence fromsight restoration; The metamodal hypothesis of computational (non-sensory)brain organisation; Cross-modal plasticity: cortical reorganisation or unmasking?…”
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