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- Title
Evidence of Odor Priming: Edibility Judgements are Primed Differently between the Hemispheres.
- Authors
Olsson, Mats J.; Fridén, Måns
- Abstract
In olfaction, there is only weak evidence of repetition priming. Repetition priming was therefore investigated in two experiments using birhinal presentation of odors at study and monorhinal at test. Experiment 1 demonstrated repetition priming for repeated judgements of edibility in terms of response latency, but not in terms of correctness. No differences were found between the hemispheres (nostrils). Experiment 2 utilized a slightly different design, in which identity of odors was studied and judgement of edibility was tested. This time, only the right hemisphere (RH) was associated with priming. This persistence of RH priming should be seen in the light of a general tendency for superiority of the left hemisphere for correctly judging edibility. It is concluded that the olfactory system benefits from previous exposure/processing just as do vision, audition and touch. In line with previous research in vision, it is suggested that RH priming may be more associated with perceptual priming and left-hemisphere (LH) priming with conceptual priming.
- Subjects
SMELL; PRIMING (Psychology); HANDEDNESS; ANALYSIS of variance; PERCEPTION testing
- Publication
Chemical Senses, 2001, Vol 26, Issue 2, p117
- ISSN
0379-864X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/chemse/26.2.117