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Chemical Senses 23: 359-362,
© 1998 Oxford University Press

Context-dependent Memory: Colour versus Odour

Sophie C. Pointer and Nigel W. Bond

School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

Correspondence to be sent to: Sophie C. Pointer, School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia. e-mail: sophie.pointer{at}flinders.edu.au


  Abstract

An olfactory stimulus and a visual stimulus were employed in a context-dependent memory study using a prose passage as the to-be-remembered item. Ninety-five university students (aged 17—35 years) learned the passage of prose in the presence of one of the stimuli and were then asked to recall the passage with the original context either reinstated or not reinstated. The results revealed a significant context-dependent memory effect for the olfactory cue but not for the visual cue. They demonstrate support for the effectiveness of odours as context cues and it is suggested that context-dependent memory processes may underlie the formation and retrieval of odour-evoked autobiographical memories.

Accepted 20 February 1998


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