The muted sense: Neurocognitive limitations of olfactory language

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 314-321

  Olofsson, Jonas K ^a,b   Gottfried, Jay A ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study   (Sweden)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Olfaction; Perception

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NEUROIMAGING; SEMANTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE NETWORKS; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; OBJECT PERCEPTION; OLFACTION; SPECIFIC INTERACTION; VISUAL OBJECTS;

VISUAL LANGUAGES;

ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SMELLING; VERBALIZATION; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

BRAIN; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SPEECH;

EID: 84931576802     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.007     Document Type: Review

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