Odors and the remembrance of things past.

Schab, Frank R.·1990·Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

Abstract

Three experiments, using odors and incidental learning procedures, examined the effectiveness of odors as memory retrieval cues.

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