6 August 2026
St Hugh’s Fellow discusses Proust’s phenomena on BBC Radio 4’s “PM”
St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology, Professor Asifa Majid FBA, was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's "PM" programme last night about the Proust phenomenon which is the experience of a smell triggering an emotionally rich autobiographical memory often from early childhood.
Research has been undertaken by French scientists into what it is that makes childhood smell memories endure the way that they do. Previ...
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