Gender differences were explored. They were then asked to come back 48 hours later and recall those words while exposed to the same or a different odor. The results indicated an interaction between the encoding and recall conditions on the number of words they recalled correctly. There were no gender effects but an effect of age was found. In everyday life people come across different odors that they do not even notice, and people study in different places that have their own scent.
Odors seem to be powerful influences in many of one s daily activities.
People are drawn to or driven away from many things as a function of their odor. In many instances odor and memory function together. Each rat was tested twice for twenty six days. The number of reference, working memory errors and latency were recorded. Reference memory was defined as a rat entering an arm of the maze that had never been reinforced under the specific cue condition.