著者

山本 晃輔 ヤマモト コウスケ Kohsuke YAMAMOTO

雑誌

大阪産業大学人間環境論集

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, pp.1-12, 2014-04

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The present study examined how verbal information affects odor cued autobiographical remembering. In experiment 1, fifty-one participants completed the Memory Characteristics Questionnaire (MCQ; Johnson, Foley, Suengas, & Ray, 1988) after remembering memories cued by odors. Familiar odor cues were used that represented orthogonal combinations of high and low rates of naming, and with and without verbal labels. Results showed that autobiographical memories cued by odor without verbal labels were more vivid than memories cued by ones with verbal labels under conditions of low rate of the naming. In order to verify the results of experiment 1, forty participants were closely investigated in experiment 2. The results showed that memories cued by odors with a high rate of naming were faster and more vivid than memories with a low rate. Similarly, memories cued by odor with verbal labels were faster and more vivid than without. These findings suggest that verbal information plays a significant role in odor-cued autobiographical remembering.