Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience
Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.
Gesualdo M. Zucco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gesualdo M. Zucco plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Neuropsychology
Articles
2012 Chapter 14. The acquisition of odour preferences via evaluative olfactory conditioning: Historical background and state of the art Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience, Zucco, Gesualdo M., Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal (eds.), pp. 269–294 | Article
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… read more
2007 9. Odor memory: The unique nature of a memory system Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 155–165 | Chapter
Olfactory memory has some important distinguishing characteristics which may suggest its uniqueness in cognition. Evidence to support this hypothesis is the following: (a) odor memory is only slightly affected by the length of the retention intervals; (b) it is very resistant to retroactive… read more