Olfactory Context Dependent Memory: Direct Presentation of Odorants.

ABSTRACT: Information is retrieved more effectively when the retrieval occurs in the same context as that in which the information was first encoded. This is termed context dependent memory (CDM). One category of cues that have been shown to effectively produce CDM effects are odors. However, it is unclear what the boundary conditions of these CDM effects are. In particular, given that olfaction has been called an implicit sense, it is possible that odors are only effective mnemonic cues when they are presented in the background. This assertion seems even more likely given that previous research has shown odors to be poor cues during paired associate memory tests, where odors are in the focus of attention as mnemonic cues for other information. In order to determine whether odors are only effective

SUBMITTER: Hacklander RPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6235200 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature