A Nose for Memory

As part of the Fall 2024 Social Science Seminar Theresa White, professor of psychology at Le Moyne, will present “A Nose for Memory.” Her talk will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 4 p.m. in Grewen Auditorium. Although the sense of smell is widely acknowledged to be associated with memory, most people think of it in terms of long-term memory, but brief olfactory memories also exist. This talk asks whether those brief smell memories are represented mentally in the same way as for other senses, such as vision or audition. Since many theories of Working Memory include aspects that are thought to generalize across the type of stimuli to be remembered, an examination of olfactory memory helps to test the limits of these ideas.