Research Laboratory at Indiana University Bloomington
(Cognitive Science Program; affiliation with Program in Neuroscience).
We combine
olfactometry and electroencephalography (EEG)
to study the human sense of smell
as a new model for theories of mind and brain.
Reviewing graduate student applications (for start in 26/27):
- Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Programs: My lab is looking for graduate students interested in EEG (electroencephalography) and/or olfaction. No prior training necessary but appreciated.
- HPS (History/Philosophy of Science): Especially interested in students with interest in empirical methods in HPS, neurophilosophy, perception and cognition (esp. chemical senses; process/dynamical frameworks, distributed cognition).
Smell is the only sense for which an entirely new stimulus can be created artificially. Chemists frequently design novel molecules with physicochemical structures unknown in nature, sometimes with heretofore uncharted sensory qualities.
Smell possesses all the hallmarks of an open system where the nose cannot predict the features with which it comes in contact. But how does the brain make sense of a stimulus space with unknown boundaries that are still expanding?
Want to know about Olfaction?
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