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    "pk": 25463,
    "title": "Odor naming is difficult, even for wine and coffee experts",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Odor naming is difficult for people, but recent cross-cultural\nresearch suggests this difficulty is culture-specific. Jahai\nspeakers (hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula) name\nodors as consistently as colors, and much better than English\nspeakers (Majid & Burenhult, 2014). In Jahai the linguistic\nadvantage for smells correlates with a cultural interest in\nodors. Here we ask whether sub-cultures in the West with\nodor expertise also show superior odor naming. We tested\nwine and coffee experts (who have specialized odor training)\nin an odor naming task. Both wine and coffee experts were no\nmore accurate or consistent than novices when naming odors.\nAlthough there were small differences in naming strategies,\nexperts and non-experts alike relied overwhelmingly on\nsource-based descriptions. So the specific language experts\nspeak continues to constrain their ability to express odors.\nThis suggests expertise alone is not sufficient to overcome the\nlimits of language in the domain of smell.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Olfaction; Flavor Expertise; Odor Naming;\nLanguage Consistency; Cognitive Linguistics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65d3d36k",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Ilja",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Croijmans",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Asifa",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Majid",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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