Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing ...

This “cognitive perspective” lies at the heart of The Forgotten Sense. How we experience a smell or taste depends both on our ...

“The study of human olfaction has historically lagged that of vision and hearing, because as humans we think of ourselves as ...

New research explores the many ways our sensory experiences overlaps, teaching us new ways the brain perceives ...

Yet scientists outside the research group have questioned the results, saying there could be flaws in the work that led to ...

In a new study in JNeurosci, Thorsten Kahnt from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and colleagues explored olfaction development in humans and reveal how early humans begin to smell.

In September 2024, these miniature pollutants were also discovered in the human olfactory bulb, a type of brain tissue that sits above the nose in the forebrain. At the time, researchers weren’t ...