Odours are powerful in bringing back distant memories linked to emotional content. This inherent hedonic property of olfactory stimuli, together with poor accessibility to semantic processing and language, makes odour particularly suitable for studies on evaluative conditioning, a variant of Pavlovian classical conditioning, through which a neutral stimulus acquires the affective valence of another stimulus with which it is paired (Hermans & Baeyens, 2002; Levey & Martin, 1975, 1987). Investigations on olfactory evaluative learning have undergone a surge in recent decades, ranging from literature on taste aversions, emergence of phobias, unconscious and subliminal conditioning, and cross-modal conditioning (De Howver et al., 2001; Li et al., 2007; Rozin et al., 1998; Zucco et al., 2009), to the effect of odour conditioning on consuming attitude, cognitive performance, and somatic syndromes in humans (Schneider et al., 1999; Van den Bergh et al., 1999; Vermetten & Bremner, 2003; Zucco, Militello, & Doty, 2008). The aim of this chapter is, therefore, to examine the most relevant literature on preference acquisition via evaluative olfactory conditioning, from the earliest demonstrations to the most recent investigations.
Zucco, Gesualdo M., Elena Andretta & Thomas Hummel
2024. Strategies to Improve Bladder Control: A Preliminary Case Study. Healthcare 12:18 ► pp. 1855 ff.
Seet, Manuel S., Nida I. Abbasi, Junji Hamano, Anumita Chaudhury, Nitish V. Thakor & Andrei Dragomir
2021. 2021 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), ► pp. 900 ff.
Zucco, Gesualdo M. & Richard L. Doty
2021. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Brain Sciences 12:1 ► pp. 46 ff.
Spence, Charles
2020. Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment. Frontiers in Psychology 11
Dal Palù, Doriana, Claudia De Giorgi, Beatrice Lerma & Eleonora Buiatti
2018. From Multisensory to Multicognitive: The Sound of a Product is Other Than the Sum of Its Parts. In Frontiers of Sound in Design [SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, ], ► pp. 21 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 10 january 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.