Human sense of smell is faster than thought, new study suggests
Human sense of smell is faster than thought, new study suggests
In a single sniff, the human sense of smell can distinguish odors within a fraction of a second, working at a level of sensitivity that is “on par” with how our brains perceive color, “refuting the widely held belief that olfaction is our slow sense,” a new study finds.
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The new findings challenge previous research in which the timing it took to discriminate between odor sequences was around 1,200 milliseconds, Dr. Dmitry Rinberg, a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone Health in New York, wrote in an editorial accompanying the study in Nature Human Behaviour.
Perhaps whoever smelt it actually did dealt it.
Finally. Someone chiming in with the practical applications of this research lol.
The article says that we can distinguish 2 different smells that appear 60 milliseconds apart.
I am very bothered that the stock photo is someone smelling tulips, which have no smell.
They're just making sure lol
This isn’t new science because I learned this is cognitive psychology in 2003