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Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior

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The Role of Nasal Inhalation in Olfaction

Theory is olfaction inspired in its beginning. We think that nasal inhalation is timing and driving a lot of aspects and patterns of neural activity processing. The brain does this completely different on inhalation versus exhalation. A study led by Ofer Peril from our lab two, three years ago, we looked at something completely non olfactory. And we compared visual spatial processing on inhalation Versus Exhalation. People performed significantly better on inhalation vsExhalation. But the nasal cycle story is a different story about brain function.

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