PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY OF OLFACTION ANN-SOPHIE BARWICH
  • Bio
  • Research
    • Presentations
  • Publications
  • Book
  • Online
    • Media
    • Talking
    • Teaching
  • News

Wonderful Review of "Smellosophy" in Perception

4/23/2021

0 Comments

 
Ekin Erkan reviewed "Smellosophy" for Perception. 

He nailed it in the Dennett sense: expressing an idea in such a way that the author goes... could not have written it better. And... would love to have written it like that myself. 
Link to Review
Picture
0 Comments

Talk at AChemS (Association for Chemoreception Sciences)

4/23/2021

0 Comments

 
I gave a short (15 min) talk at AChemS as part of a symposium on its founder Max Mozell.

​Mozell's chromatographic theory: A molecular basis of cognitive behavior? 

Max Mozell's chromatographic theory, he told me for an interview in 2018, never was completed. His hypothesis states that the mucosa in the nasal epithelium yields a spatially differentiated pattern of odorants with different sorptive rates. Mozell formulated this idea before the olfactory receptor discovery in 1991 and the availability of genetic techniques that allow for target-specific probing of olfactory sensory neurons. His theory does not find many adherents in contemporary olfactory research, now focusing on decoding the stimulus with machine learning and neural principles with optogenetics. Notwithstanding, there are good reasons to reengage with Mozell's theory and translate some of its critical tenets into the 21st century. This talk highlights Mozell's interest in linking sniffing behavior to a molecular physiological mechanism at the periphery. It asks: What questions about the olfactory process did Mozell's theory address that may still be of value today? 

(Video below)
0 Comments

Interview: Smell and Covid @ New Statesman

4/11/2021

0 Comments

 
I was interviewed on smell and COVID, alongside Barry C. Smith and Chrissi Kelly (AbScent), in the New Statesman. 

Link to article: Searching for sense: what we lose when smell deserts us
Picture
0 Comments

    Author

    Ann-Sophie Barwich 

    Archives

    November 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    April 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    October 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    October 2019
    May 2019
    November 2018
    October 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    March 2018
    October 2017
    August 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    July 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    April 2015
    September 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Bio
  • Research
    • Presentations
  • Publications
  • Book
  • Online
    • Media
    • Talking
    • Teaching
  • News