{"pk":26090,"title":"Language does not explain the wine-specific memory advantage of wine experts","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Although people are poor at naming odors, naming a smell\nhelps to remember that odor. Previous studies show wine\nexperts have better memory for smells, and they also name\nwine and wine-related smells differently than novices. This\nleads us to ask whether wine experts’ odor memory is\nverbally mediated? In addition, does the odor memory\nadvantage that experts have over novices generalize to all\nodors, or is it restricted to odors in their domain of expertise?\nTwenty-four wine experts and 24 novices smelled wines,\nwine-related odors and common odors, and were asked to\nremember these. Critically, half of the participants were asked\nto name the smells in addition to memorizing them, while the\nother half just remembered the smells. Wine experts had\nbetter memory for wines, but not for wine-related or common\nodors, indicating their memory is restricted to odors from\ntheir domain of expertise. Wine experts were also found to be\nmore consistent and accurate than novices in their\ndescriptions. But there was no relationship between experts’\nability to name odors and their memory for odors. This\nsuggests experts’ odor memory advantage is not linguistically\nmediated, but may be the result of differential perceptual\nlearning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"expertise"},{"word":"wine experts"},{"word":"Olfaction"},{"word":"Language"},{"word":"memory"},{"word":"language and thought"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58d7w9hm","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ilja","middle_name":"","last_name":"Croijmans","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University , International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences","department":""},{"first_name":"Asifa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Majid","name_suffix":"","institution":"Radboud University, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26090/galley/15726/download/"}]}