Artifact+List



This year, the theme for SYP is archaeology -we are all archaeologists, and all the thingsthat we uncover in our research are eitherdirt or artifacts, useful pieces of informationor resources. Here's an annotated list of myartifacts to date, separated into categories by media.


 * Books**

//*The Mystery and Lure of Perfume// C.J. S. Thompson This book gives a long, detailed explanation of the history of perfume. (I haven't read much of it yet because it's not entirely related to my project or my paper, but I think it will provide a good background.)

//*The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell// by Lucia Turin This book, which describes both the art of perfumery and the chemistry behind it, is based on the premise that Turin, a renowned researcher and perfume maker, has discovered how smell is processed in the brain, a topic that has confounded researchers until now. This book provides a good contrast to other, more romantic, accounts of the power of scent because Turin claims that it is unrelated to memory and eroticism.

//Fragrance: How to Make Natural Soaps, Scents, and Sundries// by Beverly Plummer This book instructs readers on the production of a plethora of beauty products; the section on scents is comprehensive and accessible, and I will most likely refer to it often during my experiments.

//Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume// by Mandy Aftel This book thoroughly describes the history and the uses of perfume. It includes a lot of technical information about perfumery that is irrelevant to my project but gave me a good basic understanding of the evolution of perfume.

//Synaptic Self// by Joseph LeDoux In this book on neuroscience, LeDoux explores the view that the self - including everything about a person's mind and characteristics - is formed entirely by different wiring and firing of synapses. While the scope of this book is much larger than mine, it addresses the specifics of predominant memory theories and will be helpful when I try to understand the connection between smell and memory.

//The Art and Science of Scent: Perfume// by Cathy Newman This book illustrates the ins and outs of the perfume industry, which is not the focus of my project but helps me understand the process of distillation.

//*The Feeling of What Happens:// Antonio Damasio This book - which walks the line between philosophy and psychology - provides me with one comprehensive and understandable theory of the mind, which will help me when I'm writing and structuring my paper.

//*How the Mind Works//: Steven Pinker In this bestselling book on neuroscience, Pinker explains that the mind is not synonymous to the brain but is instead made of certain processes that the brain performs, like a computer. This book provides me with a good background of the workings of the mind, and how different processes interact.


 * Websites**

http://www.macalester.edu/academics/psychology/whathap/ubnrp/smell/memory.html A website that gives a brief and understandable overview of olfaction and memory, including the physiological aspects.

http://www.macalester.edu/academics/psychology/whathap/ubnrp/smell/nasal.html This webpage provides a concise description of the physiology and workings of the nasal cavity, which is important to understanding how scent is processed.

[|http://www.scienceenterprises.com] This website has a wide variety of reasonably priced chemistry lab equipment, which I'll need to use when I build my still. They offer an entire distilling apparatus as well as all the parts separately.

http://www.flowerdepotstore.com/flowers.html This store has a wide selection of dried flowers and some dried herbs, reasonably priced, which will be helpful to me because I need to supplement my own produce and I can start distilling earlier with pre-dried materials.

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosi/staffinfo/jacob/teaching/sensory/olfact1.html This website is full of interesting, obscure facts about scent, tidbits that I might put on my "Neat Stuff" page.


 * Articles/Papers**

[|*http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/7/2679.full] "Enriched Odor Exposure increases the Number of Newborn Neurons in the Adult Olfactory Bulb and Improves Odor Memory" This study from the online Journal of Neuroscience details the connection between the nose and the hippocampus; it is a valuable resource for the neuroscience portion of my project but is quite technical.

(links to the abstracts of labs on Oxford Journals)

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/2/179.abstract This thorough and understandable lab provides relevant information on odor-evoked autobiographical memories in subjects of different ages and genders, which is integral to my paper.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/5/441.abstract This lab describes several understandable experiments performed on the ability of natural odors to affect emotional states in subjects of different ages and genders, which is partly the topic of my paper, and is also helps me understand how I can write a lab about neurology without having intense technical equipment.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/4/433.abstract?sid=6fb2310e-087b-4a62-8d08-7814fbab3f04 This lab explains the difference between long and short-term olfactory memory, a topic which has been researched in the past few years, with a technical focus that is far beyond what I can understand. However, the introduction and the discussion are clearly written with pertinent information about the possible existence of short-term olfactory memory.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/27/8/747.abstract?sid=6fb2310e-087b-4a62-8d08-7814fbab3f04 This well-written and interesting lab examines the processing of wine-related odorants in wine experts versus. non-experts. Although the topic itself is not related to my project, the lab focuses on the relationship between olfaction and semantic memory, claiming that verbal representations of the smells often confuse the subject's ability to identify the smell itself; this is definitely relevant and useful information.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/29/8/731.abstract?sid=6fb2310e-087b-4a62-8d08-7814fbab3f04 This lab discusses an interesting apparent difference between the right and the left sides of the olfactory cortex, which is that the former processes emotion while the latter processes memories. This possible distinction is relevant, maybe integral, to my paper.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/7/699.abstract In essence, this lab states that the left hemisphere of the olfactory membrane has greater amplitude when studying olfactory event-related potential responses (OERPs). While the technical details of the lab both escape and are not useful to me, there is detailed information on the process of an olfactory lab that I'll need in order to write my own.

http://cep.sagepub.com/content/28/10/1069.abstract The abstract of this lab gives a brief overview of the lab's finding, that migraneurs have hypersensitive olfactory sensations during their migraines, an interesting fact that I might mention in my paper.

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/34/2/139.abstract This lab claims that localization can only occur with mixed odorants that stimulate the trigeminal nerve, which is relevant to my paper because that cuts out an entire class of odorants (pure odorants) that can't usually have any tie to

http://chemse.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/1/29.abstract?sid=6fb2310e-087b-4a62-8d08-7814fbab3f04 This lab examines the relationship between olfaction and naming abilities, concluding that the availability of name labels at the time of encoding is related to the facility with which people can recall the names later, a finding that relates to my question.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7628744.stm This article briefly describes the phenomenon that sweet scents seem to give people pleasant dreams, and describes scent as the "smell that never sleeps," an idea that will be useful in my research.

[] In this short interview, Gordon Shepherd describes the importance of smell's connection to taste and the possible repercussions that this connection may have on diets and obesity. This might add a new element to my paper.


 * Miscellaneous**

[] This transcript of a This American Life episode describes a machine that is programmed to smell; the topic is somewhat tangential to my project, but it's interesting and deals with fundamental concepts of smell.

[] This youtube video - in which a Columbia biology professor succinctly describes the process of olfaction - provides a useful understanding of how molecules are processed by the brain. (I don't know how to embed this but I will find out!)

http://fashionandscience.wikispaces.com/ : Gaby Perez-Dietz's SYP from last year, about fashion and scent. While her SYP is pretty different from mine, her annotated bibliography has some useful resources for learning about smell and the nose.

Luca Turin, a Ted Talk on the science of scent. In this Ted Talk, Turin briefly explains the vibrational theory of smell, which is also the topic of his book, //The Secret of Scent.// This Ted Talk is a valuable resource because it is understandable and provides details without being too technical.


 * Unannotated Artifacts**

// The Human Sense of Smell: It's Better Than We Think // : Gordon M. Shepherd

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0020146

The Making of a Memory Mechanism. Carl F Craver, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4331783

Organization of a Primitive Memory: Olfaction. P-G de Gennes, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3373713

__from questia:__

Richard L. Doty, "Olfaction," //Annual Review of Psychology//: 423, //Questia//, Web, 9 Feb. 2012.

Trygg Engen, //Odor Sensation and Memory// (New York: Praeger, 1991) 2,//Questia//, Web, 9 Feb. 2012.

// What the Nose Knows: The science of scent in everyday life: // Avery Gilbert