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01-01-2006 | Original Article

Recollective experience in odor recognition: Influences of adult age and familiarity

Auteurs: Maria Larsson, Christina Öberg, Lars Bäckman

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 1/2006

Abstract

We examined recollective experience in odor memory as a function of age, intention to learn, and familiarity. Young and older adults studied a set of familiar and unfamiliar odors with incidental or intentional encoding instructions. At recognition, participants indicated whether their response was based on explicit recollection (remembering), a feeling of familiarity (knowing), or guessing. The results indicated no age-related differences in the distribution of experiential responses for unfamiliar odors. By contrast, for familiar odors the young demonstrated more explicit recollection than the older adults, who produced more “know” and “guess” responses. Intention to learn was unrelated to recollective experience. In addition, the observed age differences in “remember” responses for familiar odors were eliminated when odor naming was statistically controlled. This suggests that age-related deficits in activating specific odor knowledge (i.e., odor names) play an important role for age differences in recollective experience of olfactory information.

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Titel: Recollective experience in odor recognition: Influences of adult age and familiarity
Auteurs: Maria Larsson
Christina Öberg
Lars Bäckman
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2006
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 1/2006
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-004-0190-9

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