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- Title: Semantic Influences on Episodic Memory for Odors
- Author : Konstantin A. Rybalsky
- Release Date : January 19, 2013
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5073 KB
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Olfactory abilities decline with age and have been linked with a number of neurodegenerative disorders, includingAlzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Preliminary studies in young, healthy adults showed that a manipulation that improved performance on a semantic task of odor naming also improved performance on an episodic task of odor recognition. The results supported the hypothesis that simultaneous presentation of the odors together with their names improved olfactory pattern matching thereby facilitating the identification and episodic recognition of the odor. The present study investigated the effect of providing label alternatives during the episodic encoding or retrieval phases of the memory task. One hundred healthy adults were randomly assigned to four experimental groups. Odor naming and recognition memory performance was assessed for each condition. The results support previous findings suggesting that the effects of labels on episodic memory cannot be explained as cuing effects at the time of encoding or as retrieval cues. An alternative explanation is that verbal labels serve to enhance olfactory pattern recognition which aids in identifying the odor and leads to improved naming and recognition memory performance.