Add to ORKGThe human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing belief that olfactory language is deficient. Numerous studies with English speakers support this view: there are few terms for odors, odor talk is infrequent, and naming odors is difficult. However, this is not true across the world. Many languages have sizeable smell lexicons — smell is even grammaticalized. In addition, for some cultures smell talk is more frequent and odor naming easier. This linguistic variation is as yet unexplained but could be the result of ecological, cultural, or genetic factors or a combination thereof. Different ways of talking about smells may shape aspects of olfactory cognition too. Critically, this variation sheds new li...
It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and ...
People are notoriously bad at identifying odors by name. Why might this be? Theories range from comp...
A number of studies have explored whether language is grounded in action and perception, however lit...
The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing belief tha...
The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing belief tha...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
While the human sense of smell has long been considered underdeveloped, there is, nonetheless, a gro...
It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and ...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
Sensory anthropologists have described societies that, compared to Western ones, attribute to the se...
The sense of smell has widely been viewed as inferior to the other senses. This is reflected in the ...
It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and ...
People are notoriously bad at identifying odors by name. Why might this be? Theories range from comp...
A number of studies have explored whether language is grounded in action and perception, however lit...
The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing belief tha...
The human sense of smell can accomplish astonishing feats, yet there remains a prevailing belief tha...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
It has long been claimed that there is no lexical field of smell, and that smell is of too little va...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
While the human sense of smell has long been considered underdeveloped, there is, nonetheless, a gro...
It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and ...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
From Plato to Pinker there has been the common belief that the experience of a smell is impossible t...
Sensory anthropologists have described societies that, compared to Western ones, attribute to the se...
The sense of smell has widely been viewed as inferior to the other senses. This is reflected in the ...
It is widely believed that human languages cannot encode odors. While this is true for English, and ...
People are notoriously bad at identifying odors by name. Why might this be? Theories range from comp...
A number of studies have explored whether language is grounded in action and perception, however lit...