Press Releases

April 14, 2004

What the Nose Knows: Southampton College BrainWASH Lecture
Ph.D. Daughter of Professor Paul Forestell to Present Talk on Taste and Smell Research

Contact:
Patricia Conway
631-287-8313

Southampton, NY - Dr. Catherine Forestell, postdoctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, will present a lecture titled "What the Nose Knows and the Tongue Prefers: Learned Flavor Preferences in Rats and Children," as part of the afternoon lecture series BrainWASH on Wednesday, April 28 at 1:15 p.m. in Southampton College's Duke Lecture Hall.

Dr. Forestell earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her doctoral research investigated the relationship between learning and flavor preferences in laboratory animals, and involved the development of experimental procedures to better control the delivery of taste and smell stimuli to experimental animals, and objectively measure acquisition and change in preference for and palatability of distinct flavors. Dr. Forestell's work at the Monell Chemical Sense Center has focused on developmental changes in human infants for particular flavors as a function of genetic effects, fetal development, and post-natal experience. Dr. Forestell is the daughter of Dr. Paul Forestell, professor and coordinator of Southampton College's Psychobiology Program.

The informal free BrainWASH lectures, presented by the Natural Science Division of Southampton College, allow a public peek into the research of the College's faculty and students. For further information on the series contact Prof. Joe Warren at the College at (631) 287-8390 or joe.warren@liu.edu.