Croijmans, Ilja, Speed, Laura J, Arshamian, Artin et al. (1 more author) (2020) Expertise Shapes Multimodal Imagery for Wine. COGNITIVE SCIENCE. e12842. ISSN 0364-0213
Abstract
Although taste and smell seem hard to imagine, some people nevertheless report vivid imagery in these sensory modalities. We investigate whether experts are better able to imagine smells and tastes because they have learned the ability, or whether they are better imaginers in the first place, and so become experts. To test this, we first compared a group of wine experts to yoked novices using a battery of questionnaires. We show for the first time that experts report greater vividness of wine imagery, with no difference in vividness across sensory modalities. In contrast, novices had more vivid color imagery than taste or odor imagery for wines. Experts and novices did not differ on other vividness of imagery measures, suggesting a domain-specific effect of expertise. Critically, in a second study, we followed a group of students commencing a wine course and a group of matched control participants. Students and controls did not differ before the course, but after the wine course students reported more vivid wine imagery. We provide evidence that expertise improves imagery, exemplifying the extent of plasticity of cognition underlying the chemical senses.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Cognitive Science published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Cognitive Science Society (CSS). |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2020 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 00:16 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12842 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cogs.12842 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160731 |