
Ann-Sophie Barwich: Smellosophy--The Philosophy & Neuroscience of Smell
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The New Imaging Tool - Isn't It?
We can use smell for navigation. We find our way round, we usei by concentration. And theis studied by noam sobel and a couple of others who, some years ago in berkeley ad 32 hungry undergraduates trail some chocolates. They were sensoarly deprived except for smell. And they did it just like the dogs. Not just the behaviour in terms of this honing in and out, this kind of zigzagging, but also their got better with training. So one thing is that the we can use smells for spatial navigation. There are many studies that show that that is a different kind of topography. I mean, because you're not
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