“…The decline of cued odor identification performance often starts during the fifth (Doty et al, 1984a) and sixth decade of life (Brämerson, Johansson, Ek, Nordin, & Bende, 2004;Wehling, Espeseth, Reivang, Lundervold & Nordin, 2009). Findings are not consistent regarding familiarity: while Royet et al (2001) found that familiarity declined significantly with age, other authors have not confirmed this finding (Gilbert & Murphy, 2004;Larsson & Bäckman, 1997). Further studies of age effects in a sample performing different odor identification tasks are thus called for.…”