In this episode, Robin shares some interesting facts about our sense of smell. She talks a little about our neuro-anatomy, how we can capture memories with scent and the Proust Phenomenon. Enjoy!

CITATIONS

Herz, R. S., & Schooler, J. W. (2002). A naturalistic study of autobiographical memories evoked by olfactory and visual cues: testing the Proustian hypothesis. The American journal of psychology, 115(1), 21–32.

Toffolo MB, Smeets MA, van den Hout MA. (2012) Proust revisited: odours as triggers of aversive memories. Cogn Emotion 26, 83–92

Simon Chu, John J. Downes, Odour-evoked Autobiographical Memories: Psychological Investigations of Proustian Phenomena, Chemical Senses, Volume 25, Issue 1, February 2000, Pages 111–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/25.1.111