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Chemical Senses Advance Access published online on October 14, 2008
Chemical Senses, doi:10.1093/chemse/bjn060
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Which format for odor images?

Fanny Rinck1,2, Catherine Rouby1,2 and Moustafa Bensafi1,2

1 Laboratoire Neurosciences Sensorielles, Comportement, Cognition, Université de Lyon and CNRS UMR5020, France 2 Institut Fédératif des Neurosciences de Lyon, CNRS IFR19, Lyon, France

Correspondence to be sent to: Moustafa Bensafi, Laboratoire Neurosciences Sensorielles, Comportement, Cognition, CNRS UMR5020, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, 50, avenue Tony Garnier, 69366 Lyon, cedex 07, France. e-mail: bensafi{at}olfac.univ-lyon1.fr


  Abstract

Olfactory mental images are defined as short-term memory representations of olfactory events that give rise to the experience of "smelling with the mind's nose." The present paper reviewed converging evidences that support the view that as visual mental images, odor mental images preserve some aspects of olfactory percepts. The role of olfactomotor mechanisms in recalling olfactory mental images from long-term memory to short-term memory is also discussed.

Key words: olfactory cortex, olfactory mental imagery, perception, semantics, sniffing

Accepted 17 September 2008


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