Vol. 32 (6) 2011 Neuro endocrinology letters

Psychological and physiological responses to odor-evoked autobiographic memory.

OBJECTIVE: The "Proust phenomenon" occurs when a certain smell evokes a specific memory. Recent studies have demonstrated that odor-evoked autobiographic memories are more emotional than those elicited by other sensory stimuli because of the direct neural communication between the olfactory system and the amygdala. The amygdala is known.....