“Essentially, the nose, the airflow and the olfactory bulb (a section at the front of your brain that detects smell) enable the eater to interpret flavour.” This is why when you hold your ...

This is a process that involves sniffing different odours over a period of months to retrain the brain to recognise different smells. A group of international experts say smell training is cheap ...

Each sucker has many receptors that detect molecules in the water. The receptors send signals to the octopus’s brain about the molecules. That’s how an octopus tastes with its legs! If the wind is ...

The sense of smell is a complex process of the central nervous system that involves specific areas of the brain. In fact, olfactory dysfunction is seen in various central nervous system disorders ...

The human sense of smell is more potent than commonly believed ... to evoke memories of childhood” because the olfactory brain shares more connections with the brain’s memory center than ...

Even after a mild infection, the overall size of the brain had shrunk slightly, with less grey matter in the parts related to smell and memory. The researchers do not know whether the changes are ...