Categorizing Smells: A Localist Approach

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Cognitive Science 45 (1):1-26 (2021)
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Humans are poorer at identifying smells and communicating about them, compared to othersensory domains. They also cannot easily organise odour sensations in a general conceptual space like with colours. We challenge the conclusion that there is no olfactory conceptual map at all. Instead we propose a new framework, with local conceptual spaces.

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Yasmina Jraissati
American University of Beirut
Ophelia Deroy
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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