Smell has a direct neural pathway to the brain’s memory centres — and researchers used that to produce a 226% performance gap on a memory test, without drugs or training

There is a quality to smell that the other senses do not quite share. A sound reaches you and you identify it. A sight enters your field of vision and you place it. But a scent can arrive and pull you, without warning and without apparent reason, into a room you have not thought about [...] The post Smell has a direct neural pathway to the brain’s memory centres — and researchers used that to produce a 226% performance gap on a memory test, without drugs or training appeared first on Space Daily