Having ten "boxes" is not the same as having ten fundamentals. If vanilla, almond, and chocolate are all in the "sweet" category, then you're obviously missing something because WE can distinguish these three, but the "system" cannot. I bet that any one of those ten categories could be reliably subdivided so that you had eleven. I bet that people from a different era or a different culture would have created a different set of categories, given dozens of scents familiar in their time and place and dozens of words that overlap with various objects that HAVE characteristic scents (e.g., woody, floral) rather than naming the scents themselves. Consider: where would a scent relatively alien to the western nose like asafoetida or durian (or even curry) go in the list provided here?
Historically yours, Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo On 2013-09-24, at 4:05 PM, Jim Matiya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > With apologies to Karl L. Wuensch... > > http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-sci-sn-humans-can-smell-10-basic-odors-20130919,0,893244.story > > > Jim Matiya > FGCU psychology [email protected] > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=28069 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-28069-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=28074 or send a blank email to leave-28074-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
