Can We Talk About Smells? The Neurobiological, Psycholinguistic, and Cognitive Links Between Olfaction and Language

The sense of smell, olfaction, is often viewed as difficult to describe verbally. The research on olfactory-language interactions has generated theoretical discussion of broad relevance to cogni-tive and perceptual psychology. We will discuss research findings from neurobiological, psycho-linguistic and cognitive perspectives in order to provide a theoretical, interdisciplinary integra-tion.