Asifa Majid|Nicole Kruspe
Hunter-Gatherer Olfaction Is Special
Radboud University Nijmegen|Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics|Lund University
people struggle name odors 14 attributed diminution olfaction tradeoff vision 510 presumption challenged recently data huntergatherer jahai unlike english speakers find odors easy name colors 4 superior olfactory performance among jahai ecology tropical rainforest language family aslian subsistence huntergatherers provide novel evidence huntergatherer semaq beri nonhuntergatherer swiddenhorticulturalist semelai subsistence critical factor semaq beri semelai speakerswho speak closely related languages live tropical rainforest malay peninsulatook part controlled odor colornaming experiment swiddenhorticulturalist semelai found odors much difficult name colors replicating typical western finding huntergatherer semaq beri odor naming easy color naming suggesting huntergatherer olfactory cognition special