Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Frontiers in Psychology

Andreas Keller¹ 

关键词: olfaction;    smell;    consciousness;    theories of consciousness;    perceptual consciousness;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00931

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simplicity, but because of its unique features. Together, olfaction's simplicity and its distinctiveness make it an ideal system for testing theories of consciousness. In this research topic, the results of recent research into olfactory consciousness are presented.

【 授权许可】

CC BY