Neurogastronomy : how the brain creates flavor and why it matters

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Neurogastronomy : how the brain creates flavor and why it matters

Gordon M. Shepherd

Columbia University Press, 2013

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

"Paperback edition, 2013"

Contents of Works

  • Noses and smells
  • The revolution in smell and flavor
  • Dogs, humans, and retronasal smell
  • How the mouth fools the brain
  • The molecules of flavor
  • Making pictures of smells
  • Smell receptors for smell molecules
  • Forming a sensory image
  • Images of smell : an "aha" moment
  • A smell is like a face
  • Pointillist images of smell
  • Enhancing the image
  • Creating, learning, and remembering smell
  • Creating flavor
  • Smell and flavor
  • Taste and flavor
  • Mouth-sense and flavor
  • Seeing and flavor
  • Hearing and flavor
  • The muscles of flavor
  • Putting it together : the human brain flavor system
  • Why it matters
  • Flavor and emotions
  • Flavor and memory : reinterpreting Proust
  • Flavor and obesity
  • Decisions and the neuroeconomics of flavor and nutrition
  • Plasticity in the human brain flavor system
  • Smell, flavor, and language
  • Smell, flavor, and consciousness
  • Smell and flavor in human evolution
  • Why flavor matters

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