Frontiers in Psychology· 2014Q1
Quality-space theory in olfaction
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Short summary
Quality-space theory (QST), previously applied to color perception, is shown to be fully applicable and useful for understanding the complexities of olfactory perception.
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Key points
- Quality-space theory (QST) is extended from color perception to the olfactory system.
- A 'quality space' for olfaction is constructed using perceptible olfactory properties.
- Olfactory mental qualities are defined by their position within this constructed quality space.
- QST is shown to be applicable to experience-driven refinement of olfactory abilities and non-conscious olfactory states.
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Abstract
Quality-space theory (QST) explains the nature of the mental qualities distinctive of perceptual states by appeal to their role in perceiving. QST is typically described in terms of the mental qualities that pertain to color. Here we apply QST to the olfactory modalities. Olfaction is in various respects more complex than vision, and so provides a useful test case for QST. To determine whether QST can deal with the challenges olfaction presents, we show how a quality space (QS) could be constructed relying on olfactory perceptible properties and the olfactory mental qualities then defined by appeal to that QS of olfactory perceptible properties. We also consider how to delimit the olfactory QS from other modalities. We further apply QST to the role that experience plays in refining our olfactory discriminative abilities and the occurrence of olfactory mental qualities in non-conscious olfactory states. QST is shown to be fully applicable to and useful for understanding the complex domain of olfaction.
The authors' abstract, as published at the source. Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 · DOI ↗
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Field: Sensory Systems
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