ePoster · Cognition
When we fail to evoke a label to name an odor: mechanistic origins of omissions in a free odor-naming paradigm
Nikolaos Chrysanthidis, Rohan Raj, Thomas Hörberg, Robert Lindroos, Anders Lansner, Jonas Olofsson, Pawel Herman · Bernstein Conference 2024
Odor naming is considered as a particularly challenging task. In free odor naming scenarios people often fail to respond with any linguistic label to certain odors they smell, resulting in what is called an omission (i.e., a lack of response). The cognitive demands and the nature of interactions between olfaction and language related brain’s neural resources are not well understood [1]. Behavioral task: the data that we used to compare our model output were collected from a Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen (SNAC-K), where ~2500 subjects underwent an odor naming test of