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Section 4 - Memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2009

Catherine Rouby
Affiliation:
Associate professor of neuroscience, Université Claude Bernard
Benoist Schaal
Affiliation:
Research director CNRS, Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt
Danièle Dubois
Affiliation:
Research director CNRS, Institut National de la Langue Française
Rémi Gervais
Affiliation:
Research director CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon
A. Holley
Affiliation:
Professor of neuroscience Université Claude Bernard; Director Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt
Catherine Rouby
Affiliation:
Université Lyon I
Benoist Schaal
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Danièle Dubois
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Rémi Gervais
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
A. Holley
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
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Summary

Concerning memory processes in olfaction, most of the authors herein note that the evidence is sparse, mainly because the standard procedures used in the fields of vision and hearing are difficult to transfer to olfaction. Early research in olfaction, mimicking studies of the processing of visual information, was oriented toward episodic and semantic functions. However, recently there has been increasing interest in olfaction specificity, therefore shifting the focus to implicit forms of odor memory and to priming effects.

Chapter 13, by Sylvie Issanchou and colleagues, explains how the study of odor memory specificity in everyday life led them to contrast (1) incidental (nonintentional) learning and implicit recollection and (2) consciously learned and consciously recollected memories of odors in laboratory studies. They examine the ecological validity of traditional laboratory experiments and of incidental-learning paradigms in the study of olfaction by trying to get at the experimental conditions that can best predict memory performances in everyday life. They prefer priming and same/different judgments to identification tasks. However, Issanchou and associates, like Maria Larsson (Chapter 14) and Mats Olsson and his colleagues (Chapter 15), note that in spite of their efforts, it has been unexpectedly difficult to show priming effects in olfaction, as compared with priming in other modalities, the challenge being to figure out whether priming effects depend on perceptual processes or on conceptual (naming) processes.

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Print publication year: 2002

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  • Memory
    • By Catherine Rouby, Associate professor of neuroscience, Université Claude Bernard, Benoist Schaal, Research director CNRS, Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt, Danièle Dubois, Research director CNRS, Institut National de la Langue Française, Rémi Gervais, Research director CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, A. Holley, Professor of neuroscience Université Claude Bernard; Director Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt
  • Edited by Catherine Rouby, Université Lyon I, Benoist Schaal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Danièle Dubois, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Rémi Gervais, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, A. Holley, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition
  • Online publication: 21 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546389.019
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  • Memory
    • By Catherine Rouby, Associate professor of neuroscience, Université Claude Bernard, Benoist Schaal, Research director CNRS, Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt, Danièle Dubois, Research director CNRS, Institut National de la Langue Française, Rémi Gervais, Research director CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, A. Holley, Professor of neuroscience Université Claude Bernard; Director Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt
  • Edited by Catherine Rouby, Université Lyon I, Benoist Schaal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Danièle Dubois, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Rémi Gervais, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, A. Holley, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition
  • Online publication: 21 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546389.019
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  • Memory
    • By Catherine Rouby, Associate professor of neuroscience, Université Claude Bernard, Benoist Schaal, Research director CNRS, Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt, Danièle Dubois, Research director CNRS, Institut National de la Langue Française, Rémi Gervais, Research director CNRS, Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, A. Holley, Professor of neuroscience Université Claude Bernard; Director Centre Européen des Sciences du GoÛt
  • Edited by Catherine Rouby, Université Lyon I, Benoist Schaal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Danièle Dubois, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, Rémi Gervais, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, A. Holley, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  • Book: Olfaction, Taste, and Cognition
  • Online publication: 21 September 2009
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511546389.019
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