Gesualdo M. Zucco

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gesualdo M. Zucco is involved.

Title

Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience

Edited by Gesualdo M. Zucco, Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal

This book was conceived as a tribute to one of the founders of the psychological study of the sense of smell, Professor Trygg Engen. The book is divided into four sections. The first reunites the fields of psychophysics and the perception of environmental odours and discusses the impact of odours… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 85] 2012. xx, 317 pp.

Articles

Zucco, Gesualdo M. 2012 Chapter 14. The acquisition of odour preferences via evaluative olfactory conditioning: Historical background and state of the art Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience, Zucco, Gesualdo M., Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal (eds.), pp. 269–294 | Article

Odours are powerful in bringing back distant memories linked to emotional content. This inherent hedonic property of olfactory stimuli, together with poor accessibility to semantic processing and language, makes odour particularly suitable for studies on evaluative conditioning, a variant of… read more

Zucco, Gesualdo M. 2007 9. Odor memory: The unique nature of a memory system Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 155–165 | Chapter

Olfactory memory has some important distinguishing characteristics which may suggest its uniqueness in cognition. Evidence to support this hypothesis is the following: (a) odor memory is only slightly affected by the length of the retention intervals; (b) it is very resistant to retroactive… read more