{"id":2086192,"date":"2019-06-19T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2086192"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T18:31:04","slug":"bad-smells-memory-anxiety-learning-2086192-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/bad-smells-memory-anxiety-learning-2086192-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad smells make our memories stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"
Memories are stronger if an unpleasant odor was part of the original experience, a new study reports.<\/p>\n
The discovery broadens our understanding of what can drive Pavlovian responses and points to how negative experiences influence our ability to recall past events, researchers say.<\/p>\n
“These results demonstrate that bad smells are capable of producing memory enhancements in both adolescents and adults, pointing to new ways to study how we learn from and remember positive and negative experiences,” explains Catherine Hartley, an assistant professor in the psychology department at New York University and senior author of the paper in the journal Learning and Memory<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n