Can you remember moments when you’ve associated memory with a scent?
From What the nose knows:
Smell and memory seem to be so closely linked because of the brain’s anatomy, said Harvard’s Venkatesh Murthy, Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
There were even moments when I just smelled something that took me back to an old memory I never thought about in a long time.
From What the nose knows:
Smells are handled by the olfactory bulb, the structure in the front of the brain that sends information to the other areas of the body’s central command for further processing. Odors take a direct route to the limbic system, including the amygdala and the hippocampus, the regions related to emotion and memory.
We can then use fragrance as a cue to help us be in the mood for something or make a moment memorable.
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