Benoist Schaal

List of John Benjamins publications in which Benoist Schaal is involved.

Title

Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience

Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal

This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.

Article

Schaal, Benoist 2012 Chapter 13. Emerging chemosensory preferences: Another playground for the innate-acquired dichotomy in human cognition Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience, Zucco, Gesualdo M., Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal (eds.), pp. 237–268 | Article

As in many other domains of perception and cognition, two opposite conceptions about the causes of emergence of odor preferences were raised by empirical research in newborn infants, one defending the blank slate view while the other endorsed the innate view. Although these conceptions were… read more