Memory of Taste

An Role of elaboration in explicit memory and "sugar content judgment task" as a substantiative experiment for implicit memory.

Abstract

Two experiments were performed. In experiment 1, an influence for explicit memory of taste was confirmed in terms of elaboration. The result showed that elaboration played an important role for explicit memory of taste as well as the other senses. In experiment 2, an implicit memory of taste was examined using “sugar content judgment task." The results showed that an implicit memory of taste was observed .