| International Standard Book Number |
9780063394704 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063394674 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063394677 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780008718596 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
0008718598 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Olofsson, Jonas (Professor of psychology), author.
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| Uniform Title |
Underskattade sinnet. English
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| Title Statement |
The forgotten sense : the new science of smell -- and the extraordinary power of the nose / Jonas Olofsson.
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| Edition Statement |
First US edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Mariner Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
218 pages ; 22 cm.
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| General Note |
"Originally published as Det underskattade sinnet in Sweden in 2023 by Natur & Kultur."--Title page verso.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: the best worst smell in the world -- The forgotten sense. The superpowers of the sense of smell ; Cultural chemicals ; The world's first smells -- The smart nose. The emotional time machine ; The intelligence of the nose ; Follow your nose ; Smells and instincts ; Dirty secrets -- Learning to smell again. Smells and life ; The virus that stole all the smells ; Becoming nosewise.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"James Nestor's BREATH meets Mary Roach's GULP in a fascinating tour of our most essential sense for perceiving the world around us-and the story of how it became our most neglected. Smelling is one of the most natural things we do. We take over 20,000 breaths a day, interacting with a host of scents with each one. Smell is also one of our most sensitive and refined senses; only dogs surpass our ability to perceive scents in the animal kingdom. Yet, as the millions of people who lost their sense of smell during the COVID-19 pandemic can attest, we too often overlook its role in our overall health. Now, one of the world's leading researchers on smell Jonas Olofsson reveals the fascinating science behind this forgotten sense. Drawing from cutting-edge original research, Olofsson reveals not only that the human sense of smell is extraordinarily sensitive, but how it engages our brain's full capacity. In fact, olfaction begins not in the nose, but in the brain, even before an odor's molecules reach our smell receptors. Our memories, personalities, preferences, and expectations shape the way we interact with scents, with profound implications for how we perceive the world around us. With playful curiosity and a breadth of scientific interest across neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and even literature, THE FORGOTTEN SENSE reveals the wonders of smell, and all that we lose in neglecting it. We meet ancient philosophers who prized smell as well as the nineteenth-century scholars who associated it with "beastly" instincts and charted its devaluation for over a century. Olofsson untangles the role of smell in human evolution and answers the question of why two people can interpret the same smell differently. And, crucially, we see smell as the intellectual exercise that it is, with invaluable insight into how we might train our brains to strengthen and even regain our sense of smell after illness. For readers of Bill Bryson and Steven Pinker, THE FORGOTTEN SENSE reveals the depths of the most understudied function of human life"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Language note |
Translated from the Swedish.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nose.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Smell.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Olfactory nerve.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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