How Smell Guides Our Inner World
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Recent research challenges the notion that humans are poor smellers, revealing smell's deep connection to emotion and memory. Scientists are creating databases to characterize molecular scents, studying how the brain processes odors, and systematically mapping odor molecules and their perception. This work aims to establish a shared language for describing smells and provides a more detailed picture of olfaction, highlighting its importance as a sensory system in human experience.
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