Rachel S. Herz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rachel S. Herz 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.

Article

Herz, Rachel S. 2012 Chapter 6. Odor memory and the special role of associative learning Olfactory Cognition: From perception and memory to environmental odours and neuroscience, Zucco, Gesualdo M., Rachel S. Herz and Benoist Schaal (eds.), pp. 95–114 | Article

The field of odor-memory comprises both memory for odors and the ability for odors to evoke autobiographical recollections. Trygg Engen pioneered the psychological investigation of memory for odors. His observation that odor recognition memory was based on associative learning was pivotal to… read more