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Noam Sobel
Researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science
Publications - 122
Citations - 8944
Noam Sobel is an academic researcher from Weizmann Institute of Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Olfaction & Sniffing. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 119 publications receiving 8073 citations. Previous affiliations of Noam Sobel include University of California, Berkeley & Tel Aviv University.
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Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction
Adam K. Anderson,Kalina Christoff,Iris Stappen,D. Panitz,Dara G. Ghahremani,Gary H. Glover,John D. E. Gabrieli,Noam Sobel +7 more
TL;DR: Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), it is found amygdala activation to be associated with intensity, and not valence, of odors, suggesting that the affective representations of intensity and valence draw upon dissociable neural substrates.
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Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex
Noam Sobel,Vivek Prabhakaran,John E. Desmond,Gary H. Glover,Richard L. Goode,Edith V. Sullivan,John D. E. Gabrieli +6 more
TL;DR: It is found that sniffing, whether odorant is present or absent, induces activation primarily in the piriform cortex of the temporal lobe and in the medial and posterior orbito-frontal gyri of the frontal lobe.
Book
An Odor is Not Worth a Thousand Words: From Multidimensional Odors to Unidimensional Odor Objects
Yaara Yeshurun,Noam Sobel +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the boundaries of an odor object are determined by its pleasantness, which--unlike something material and more like an emotion--remains poorly delineated with words.
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Predicting Odor Pleasantness from Odorant Structure: Pleasantness as a Reflection of the Physical World
TL;DR: The findings suggest that olfactory pleasantness is also partially innate, corresponding to a natural axis of maximal discriminability among biologically relevant molecules.
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The sniff is part of the olfactory percept.
Joel D. Mainland,Noam Sobel +1 more
TL;DR: This review uses data obtained primarily from humans to argue that sniffs are not merely a stimulus carrier but are rather a central component of the olfactory percept.