>From: "Mark S. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I just got a request from a local reporter asking if I knew
>of any research on a possible association between Holiday
>odors (odors associated with the Fall holidays of
>Thanksgiving & Christmas) and emotions and memory. The request was
>a little vague, but I gathered that she is doing a piece on how the
>smells of Fall and the holidays might affect emotions and
>bring back fond memories of childhood Christmases, etc.
Rachel Herz has examined the role of odors as retrieval cues for
autobiographical memories. She has a recent review of odor memory:
Herz, R. S. (1996). Odor memory: Review and analysis. Psychonomic
Bulleting & Review, 3, 300-313.
A PsychInfo search on her work uncovered several other related publications:
Herz, R. S. (1992). An experimenatl characterization of odor-evoked
memories in humans. Chemical Senses, 17, 519-528.
Herz, R. S. (1997). Emotion experienced during encoding enhances odor
retrieval cue effectiveness. American Journal of Psychology, 110, 489-505.
Herz, R. S. (1995). The emotional distinctiveness of odor-evoked
memories. Chemical Senses, 20, 517-528.
And, if we want to consider the effects of all that holiday music in the
background, Rubin's work might be of interest:
Schulkind, M. D., Hennis, L. K., & Rubin, D. C. (1999). Music, emotion,
and autobiographical memory: They're playing your song. Memory &
Cognition, 27, 948-955.
Claudia
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