Chem. Senses 26: 267-280,
2001
© Oxford University Press 2001
Implicit Learning and Implicit Memory for Odors: the Influence of Odor Identification and Retention Time
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and 1 Institut Européen des Sciences du Goût, Dijon, France
Correspondence to be sent to: Egon Peter Köster, University of Utrecht, Jan Van Scorelstraat 5, NL-34583 CK Utrecht, The Netherlands. e-mail: ep.koster{at}wxs.nl
One hundred and fifty-two subjects, divided into eight groups, were exposed to a room with a low concentration of either orange or lavender and to an odorless room. In a careful double-blind procedure, neither the subjects nor the experimenters were made aware of the presence of the odors in the experimental conditions. Later they were asked to indicate how well each of 12 odor stimuli, including the experimental and control odors, befitted each of 12 visual contexts, including the exposure rooms. At the end of this session they rated the pleasantness and the familiarity of the odors, and identified them by name. Finally they were debriefed and asked specifically whether they had perceived the experimental odors anywhere in the building. The results of four subjects who answered positively to the latter question were omitted. The results confirm the earlier finding that non-identifiers implicitly link odor and exposure room, whereas identifiers do not show such a link. It is suggested that episodic information is an essential constituent of olfactory memory and that its function is comparable to that of form and structure in visual and auditory memory systems.
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