[extropy-chat] Questionnaire on senses

[Anna Taylor]

Anna Taylor wrote:

> Anders Sandberg, Sat Jan 27 15:33:47 UTC 2007 wrote:
>
>>Smells can rather directly evoke memories and
>>emotions. They get directly integrated in a general
>>context in the hippocampal system rather than
treated
>>as elements to be analysed and then put together.

>Anna Taylor wrote:
> That's odd I always believed that touch and taste
> where elements that where analysed and then put
> together while, sight, smell and hearing could
> directly evoke memories and emotions.

> Could you please forward me some links, I'd be very
> interested in reading about it.

>>Well, I have always heard this as the standard view
>>among neuroscientists. At least my memory research
>>colleagues (who mess around with related parts of
>>the brain) never doubted it, and half of all
>>textbooks of memory start with Proust's
Madeleine->>cookie quote.

My apology Anders.  I wasn't very clear with that
response.  From what I have read, I believed that
along side of smell, that sight and hearing could also
evoke memories and emotion.  

Thank you (and Natasha) for the links.  I may not have
understood properly so I appreciate the right
direction.

Anna:)

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