Sensation and Perception 9th Edition by Bruce Goldstein

Exercise 2

Can you think of situations in which you have encountered a smell that triggered memories about an event or place that you hadn't thought about in years? What do you think might be the mechanism for this type of experience?
Figure Sensory-specificsatiety. Results of the O'Doherty et al. (2000) experiment. (a) Pleasantness rating for banana and vanilla odor before eating (left bars) and after eating bananas to satiety (right bars). (b) Response of the orbitofrontal cortex to banana and vanilla odors before and after eating bananas.