Odor memory: Review and analysis
Open Access
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Vol. 3 (3), 300-313
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03210754
Abstract
We critically review the cognitive literature on olfactory memory and identify the similarities and differences between odor memory and visual-verbal memory. We then analyze this literature using criteria from a multiple memory systems approach to determine whether olfactory memory can be considered to be a separate memory system. We conclude that olfactory memory has a variety of important distinguishing characteristics, but that more data are needed to confer this distinction. We suggest methods for the study of olfactory memory that should make a resolution on the separate memory system hypothesis possible while simultaneously advancing a synthetic understanding of olfaction and cognition.Keywords
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