Search for dissertations about: "odor perception"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the words odor perception.
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1. Perfumes between Venus and Mars : How gender categorization of perfumes is (not) related to odor perception and odor preference
Abstract : How we smell is important to a lot of people, as indicated by the high spending on perfumes. Most perfumes are categorized as feminine or masculine, and this gender categorization is an important factor when people purchase perfumes. READ MORE
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2. Machine Learning Techniques with Specific Application to the Early Olfactory System
Abstract : This thesis deals with machine learning techniques for the extraction of structure and the analysis of the vertebrate olfactory pathway based on related methods. Some of its main contributions are summarized below. READ MORE
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3. The effects of valenced odors on facial perception
Abstract : We use our senses to navigate in the world. An important property of olfaction, the sense of smell, is to enable us to approach beneficial things, and to avoid what might be toxic or otherwise harmful in our environment. Other peoples’ behaviors are also paramount for our survival. READ MORE
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4. Odor perception in three Coleoptera: molecule, receptor & neuron
Abstract : In this thesis, the sense of olfaction and its links to behavior was studied in the cetoniid chafers Pachnoda interrupta and P. marginata, and the bark beetle Ips typographus. P. interrupta is a pest on sorghum in Ethiopia, and I. READ MORE
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5. Human olfaction : Associations with longitudinal assessment of episodic memory, dementia, and mortality risk
Abstract : A declining sense of smell is a common feature in older age. Above and beyond diminished smelling capacity due to normal processes of human aging, impairments in olfactory function have also been linked to numerous ill-health related outcomes, such as cognitive dysfunctions, dementia pathology and even an increased risk of death. READ MORE