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Smell
Ed Cara
When you experience something with your senses, it evokes complex patterns of activity in your brain. One important goal in neuroscience is to decipher how these neural patterns drive the sensory experience. For example, can the smell of chocolate be represented by a single brain cell, groups of cells firing…
Smells, like the tangy scent of the ocean or the acrid odor of smoke, are powerful cues that shape our memories and warn us of imminent threats. But for approximately 12 per cent of Americans over the age of 40, this crucial sense is significantly reduced or absent altogether. While scientists…
There are some things we can all agree on. For instance: The fact that poo smells bad. There are some contrarians out there — fetishists, primary school class clowns and so on — but for the most part this issue transcends the usual divisions.
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