Monday, January 08, 2007
Smelling in stereo
Even if you don't listen to the entire story (which is informative), you should at least watch the video. Kind of creepy to watch a student crawling around a field! Anyway, the two Berkeley researchers found through two experiments, in which participants tracked "essence of chocolate," that humans detect different information from each nostril to form a 3D map of olfactory cues. Check out the story here.
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that's pretty cool! And those are some dedicated researchers to crawl around in a field!!
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