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Limitations in odour simulation may originate from differential sensory embodiment
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In: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2020)
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Across diverse lineages, animals communicate using chemosignals, but only humans communicate about chemical signals. Many studies have observed that compared with other sensory modalities, communication about smells is relatively rare and not always reliable. Recent cross-cultural studies, on the other hand, suggest some communities are more olfactorily oriented than previously supposed. Nevertheless, across the globe a general trend emerges where olfactory communication is relatively hard. We suggest here that this is in part because olfactory representations are different in kind: they have a low degree of embodiment, and are not easily expressed as primitives, thereby limiting the mental manipulations that can be performed with them. New exploratory data from Dutch children (9–12 year-olds) and adults support that mental imagery from olfaction is weak in comparison with vision and audition, and critically this is not affected by language development. Specifically, while visual and auditory imagery becomes more vivid with age, olfactory imagery shows no such development. This is consistent with the idea that olfactory representations are different in kind from representations from the other senses. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue ‘Olfactory communication in humans’.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7209937/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32306876 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0273
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The geographical configuration of a language area influences linguistic diversity: data archive ...
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Grounding language in the neglected senses of touch, taste, and smell
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Linguistic features of fragrances : the role of grammatical gender and gender associations
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The challenge of olfactory ideophones : Reconsidering ineffability from the Totonac-Tepehua perspective
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Studying psycholinguistics out of the lab
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In: Research methods in psycholinguistics and the neurobiology of language (Hoboken, NJ, 2018), p. 190-207
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Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages
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In: ISSN: 0027-8424 ; EISSN: 1091-6490 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01984190 ; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115 (45), pp.11369-11376 (2018)
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Smell is coded in grammar and frequent in discourse: Cha'palaa olfactory language in cross-linguistic perspective
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