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Our sense of smell like sense of taste is part of our chemosenory system.
The chemical senses specialised sensory cells, called olfactory sensory neurons, are found in a small patch of tissue high inside the nose.
These cells are connected directly to the brain. Each olfactory neuron expresses one odour receptor.
The chemical senses specialised sensory cells, called olfactory sensory neurons, are found in a small patch of tissue high inside the nose.
These cells are connected directly to the brain. Each olfactory neuron expresses one odour receptor.
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Smells can trigger emotions
A well known idea called the "Proustian phenomenon" proposes that a distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories. Smells can transport us to powerful and emotional memories from the past more effectively than sound, a study shows, supporting a theory by Marcel Praust
Experts have suggested the special impact of odour on our memory could be related to the proximity of the closeness of our our olfactory bulb, which helps us process smells, and the amyadala and hippocampus brain region which controls emotion and memory. Smell is an important part of taste. Many qualities of food that we taste, are actually a function function of smell. Aristotle believed that that the sense of smell occupies a peculiar intermediate in his position theory of sense perception : do odours, like colour and sound, are perceived of a distance through an external medium ; yet in their nature the are intimately related to flavours.
A well known idea called the "Proustian phenomenon" proposes that a distinctive smells have more power than any other sense to help us recall distant memories. Smells can transport us to powerful and emotional memories from the past more effectively than sound, a study shows, supporting a theory by Marcel Praust
Experts have suggested the special impact of odour on our memory could be related to the proximity of the closeness of our our olfactory bulb, which helps us process smells, and the amyadala and hippocampus brain region which controls emotion and memory. Smell is an important part of taste. Many qualities of food that we taste, are actually a function function of smell. Aristotle believed that that the sense of smell occupies a peculiar intermediate in his position theory of sense perception : do odours, like colour and sound, are perceived of a distance through an external medium ; yet in their nature the are intimately related to flavours.
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Prehistoric
Back when people were less civilized and antiseptics weren't invited people used to believe that headaches were caused by evil spirits trapped in the brain trying to escape. Trepanning is the processed used to remedy this. They use to drill a whole in your skull in order to release this evil spirits. Witch Doctors believed that this process could be avoid by piercing a bone through they nose. By doing this the would prohibit themselves from inhaling any bad spirits. The bone would act as a "Supernatural" filter.
Back when people were less civilized and antiseptics weren't invited people used to believe that headaches were caused by evil spirits trapped in the brain trying to escape. Trepanning is the processed used to remedy this. They use to drill a whole in your skull in order to release this evil spirits. Witch Doctors believed that this process could be avoid by piercing a bone through they nose. By doing this the would prohibit themselves from inhaling any bad spirits. The bone would act as a "Supernatural" filter.
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Ancient Egypt
When we breath in through our noses, the air enters the heart and lungs and then the entire belly. They believed that the nostrils
have four vessels. Two of them provide mucus while the other two provide blood.
Egyptians believed that good smells could help to increase our life span. They believed that when you smelt something good you would absorb its energy.
Its part of the reasons when Pharaohs would die they would carry out the process of mummification to preserve the body for the after life. Also to stop the "bad smells" or the stench of decay from spreading because, they believed that to would curse the land.
When we breath in through our noses, the air enters the heart and lungs and then the entire belly. They believed that the nostrils
have four vessels. Two of them provide mucus while the other two provide blood.
Egyptians believed that good smells could help to increase our life span. They believed that when you smelt something good you would absorb its energy.
Its part of the reasons when Pharaohs would die they would carry out the process of mummification to preserve the body for the after life. Also to stop the "bad smells" or the stench of decay from spreading because, they believed that to would curse the land.
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Middle Ages
The first outbreak of plague swept across England in 1348-49. It seems to have travelled across the south in bubonic form during the summer months of 1348, before mutating into the even more frightening pneumonic form with the onset of winter. Just like the Egyptians the Europeans had the small theory about smells. They believed the the Plague was caused by Miasma or "bad air".
The first outbreak of plague swept across England in 1348-49. It seems to have travelled across the south in bubonic form during the summer months of 1348, before mutating into the even more frightening pneumonic form with the onset of winter. Just like the Egyptians the Europeans had the small theory about smells. They believed the the Plague was caused by Miasma or "bad air".