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Can losing the sense of smell affect odor language?
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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A number of studies have explored whether language is grounded in action and perception, however little attention has been given to the sense of smell. Here we directly test whether olfactory information is necessary for comprehension of odor-related language, by comparing language performance in a group of participants with no sense of smell (anosmics) with a group of control participants with an intact sense of smell. We found no difference in comprehension of odor- and taste-related language between anosmics and controls using a lexical decision task, suggesting olfaction is not crucial to semantic representations of odor-related language. However, we did find that anosmics were better at remembering odor-related words than controls, and they also rated odor- and taste-related words as more positively valenced than control participants. We suggest odor-related language is more salient and emotional to anosmics because it reminds them of their missing sense. Overall, this study supports the proposal that odor-related language is not grounded in odor perception.
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sr476xs
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Sensory Modality of Input Influences the Encoding of Motion Events in Speech But Not Co-Speech Gestures
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology
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Supplementary information for "Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception" ...
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Environment and culture shape both the colour lexicon and the genetics of colour perception
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In: Sci Rep (2021)
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Crossmodal Associations with Olfactory, Auditory, and Tactile Stimuli in Children and Adults
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In: Iperception (2021)
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Supplementary material from "Limitations in odour simulation may originate from differential sensory embodiment" ...
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Anger stinks in Seri : Olfactory metaphor in a lesser-described language
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Smell terms are not rara : A semantic investigation of odor vocabulary in Thai
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