Fabiana Carvalho is a Brazilian neuroscientist who received her MSc in Biochemistry and her PhD in Psychobiology studying neural processes of perception and memory. She has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher on a project investigating sensory perception as an anticipatory and constructive process instead of a mere passive and reactive process.
She is currently a collaborating researcher at the University of Campinas, Brazil. Her research project “The Coffee Sensorium” is focused on understanding multisensory flavour perception. She is interested in scrutinizing the influence of extrinsic factors (that is, ambiance factors) on the expectation and perception of flavour in specialty coffee. This research project has been conducted in collaboration with Prof Charles Spence at University of Oxford, UK.
The Seminar will be composed of two main seminars:
Aromas in coffee: Perception & Description (November 3rd ) (9am - 5pm)
This course helps you on how confident are you in describing aromas and flavour notes in coffee. If you find it a hard task, do not worry – in fact, olfactory description is a particularly challenging task. We humanshave a superbly keen sense of smell, we have only minimal conscious awareness of smell and are extremely limited in their ability to describe olfactory experience. There are biological and cultural reasons that make it difficult to verbalize our sense of smell. However, it is essential that experts in odour, such as perfumers and food/drink professionals, are able to verbally describe the set of odours that are present in a given product. The olfactory performance can be improved with training which makes more effective the neural processing of the odorous stimuli as well as the subjective capacity of naming them.
Multisensory Flavour perception in coffees ( November 4th ) (9am - 5pm)
The perception of flavour is perhaps the most multisensory of our everyday experiences. The latest research by neuroscientists increasingly reveals how the combination of gustatory, olfactory, and tactile stimuli gives rise to our flavour experiences. On top of the oral senses, vision and audition are also considered as factors that modulate flavour perception through anticipatory behaviour. The course ‘Multisensory Flavour Perception’ aims at addressing the contributions of distinct senses to flavour perception as well as the factors that can affect the flavour experience of specialty coffee. How can the characteristics of the coffee cup, the
coffee label, and environmental sounds affect our perception of flavour in coffee?
The course will discuss the neurobiology of the olfactory system. We will also present a series of training tools, such as crossmodality, which are effective in the identification of aroma and flavour notes.
The seminar has a maximum capacity of 10 people.
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CONDICIONES
* Los precios de los cursos reflejan lo siguiente:
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La calidad de la formación recibida basada en años de experiencia en el sector del café y educativo.
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La preparación de la clase.
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La calidad del equipamiento y de los materiales usados, así como de los consumibles
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Grupos muy reducidos.
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La formación continua de los profesores en cursos, congresos, foros, etc.
** Política de cancelación:
Cuando se realiza la compra de una plaza para un curso, se recibirá un email confirmando la misma y nosotros comenzaremos a preparar la clase. Por otro lado, las plazas disponibles al público se verán reducidas en el mismo número que hayas contratado y si el curso está lleno dejará de poderse comprar. Aunque entendemos los imprevistos causados por enfermedades o accidentes, nuestra política de devolución de dinero reflejará los costes derivados de la preparación de esa clase y de que la plaza no haya estado disponible para otro comprador.
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El dinero se devolverá completamente si el curso es cancelado al menos 21 días antes de la realización del mismo. También se podrá ofrecer al alumno otra fecha disponible si lo prefiere a la devolución.
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Se cobrará una comisión de cancelación del 50% si el curso es cancelado entre los 21 días y las 48 horas de la celebración del mismo.
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No se devolverá el dinero ni se le ofrecerá otra fecha si el alumno no asiste al curso o cancela con un aviso menor a 48 horas.
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En caso de haber una asistencia confirmada de 1 solo participante la empresa tiene el derecho a no celebrar el curso y dar opción a un reembolso o fecha alternativa