Multidimensional representation of odors in the human olfactory cortex

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titleMultidimensional representation of odors in the human olfactory cortex
start_date2016/02/01
schedule11h
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detailsInvité par l'équipe Perception-Action.
summaryAn important issue in cognitive psychology of smells is to understand how the human brain represents odor objects. Representation of visual objects is far better understood; we know that physical and perceptual attributes of visual stimuli are represented in a distributed and hierarchical manner, but it is still unclear how chemical properties of odorant molecules and perceptual aspects of odors are represented along  the human olfactory pathway. In this talk, I will present a series of psychophysical and fMRI studies that tested the hypothesis that the multidimensional representation of odors is the result of a neural mechanism that processes similarities of chemical information and perceptual information at various stages of the olfactory system, from piriform cortex to temporal areas.
responsiblesRämä, Izard