White T L
SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse 13210, USA.
Chem Senses. 1998 Aug;23(4):433-41. doi: 10.1093/chemse/23.4.433.
It has been proposed that memory for odors does not have a short-term (or working) memory system. The distinction between short- and long-term memory in other sensory modalities has been generally supported by three main lines of evidence: capacity differences between the proposed systems, evidence of differential coding, and differential memory losses in neuropsychological patients. The present paper examines these issues in an effort to establish a similar distinction for the memory of olfactory stimuli. Each of these lines of evidence is examined in relation to the literature on olfactory memory. Based on this examination, it seems that there is at least preliminary support from each of these lines of evidence to advocate a distinction between a long- and short-term memory for olfactory stimuli. Emphasis is placed upon the qualitative similarity of olfactory memory to other memory systems. This similarity is further highlighted through an examination of the literature pertinent to serial position effects in memory for olfactory stimuli.
有人提出，对气味的记忆不存在短期（或工作）记忆系统。其他感觉模态中短期记忆和长期记忆的区分通常得到三条主要证据的支持：所提出的系统之间的容量差异、差异编码的证据以及神经心理学患者的差异性记忆丧失。本文探讨这些问题，试图为嗅觉刺激的记忆建立类似的区分。针对嗅觉记忆的文献，对每条证据进行了考察。基于这一考察，似乎每条证据至少都有初步支持，主张区分嗅觉刺激的长期记忆和短期记忆。重点在于嗅觉记忆与其他记忆系统在性质上的相似性。通过考察与嗅觉刺激记忆中的系列位置效应相关文献，这种相似性得到了进一步凸显。
