ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2019
Linguistic features of fragrances: The role of grammatical gender and gender associations.
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- Cues for odor naming affect performance and brain connectivity.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Grammatical gender universalities underlying uniform mental representations of the world: Myth or reality?Heliyon · 2024Article
- Is That "Mr." or "Ms." Lemon? An Investigation of Grammatical and Semantic Gender on the Perception of Household Odorants.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Across-language masculinity of oceans and femininity of guitars: Exploring grammatical gender universalities.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- How Semantically Labeled Scent-Gender Associations Influence the Evaluations of Scent and Texture.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Odors are often difficult to identify and name, which leaves them vulnerable to the influence of language. The present study tests the boundaries of the effect of language on odor cognition by examining the effect of grammatical gender. We presented participants with male and female fragrances paired with descriptions of masculine or feminine grammatical gender. In Experiment 1 we found that memory for fragrances was enhanced when the grammatical gender of a fragrance description matched the gender of the fragrance. In Experiment 2 we found memory for fragrances was affected by both grammatical gender and gender associations in fragrance descriptions - recognition memory for odors was higher when the gender was incongruent. In sum, we demonstrated that even subtle aspects of language can affect odor cognition.
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