Reading cinnamon activates olfactory brain regions

By Julio González, A. Barrós-Loscertales, Friedemann Pulvermüller, Vanessa Meseguer, A. Sanjuán, V. Belloch, C. Ávila. NeuroImage, 2006

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Nutrition and Dietetics, Sensory Systems

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Taste and smell words form an affectively loaded and emotionally flexible part of the English lexicon (2016, unknown): “…the idea that processing sensory words such as “fragrant” and “yellow” involves the activation of sensory brain areas associated with the corresponding modalities (e.g. Connell & Lynott, 2009, 2010; Goldberg, Perfetti, & Schneider, 2006; González et al., 2006; Pecher, Zeelenberg, & Barsalou, 2003).”
An Embedded and Embodied Cognition Review of Instructional Manipulatives (2014, background): “…reading words that have olfactory, gustatory, or motor connotations (e.g., garlic, jasmine, salt, sour, kick, pick) as opposed to neutral words, activates brain regions that are involved in smelling, tasting, and moving (Barrós-Loscertales et al. 2011; Gonzalez et al. 2006; Hauk et al. 2004).”
Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning (2011, background): “In an fMRI study by Gonzáles and colleagues, it was enough for the subjects to read the word cinnamon in order to evoke brain responses in olfactory areas (González et al., 2006).”
The 'Visual Depiction Effect' in Advertising: Facilitating Embodied Mental Simulation Through Product Orientation (2012, unknown): “…cortex (Zatorre and Halpern 2005), passively reading words like “cinnamon” or “garlic” leads to neural activity in the primary olfactory cortex (Gonza´lez et al. 2006), and viewing images of chocolate chip cookies activates the primary (frontal operculum/insula) and secondary…”