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Originally Posted by mynah
Most people who have ever had a cold probably need no confirmation that smell is linked to taste. Why then, are there cases where smell and taste sensations are so discordant?
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Good point mynah
Have you ever had a Miricle Fruit?
It is a little berry that reverses the tastes of sweet sour.
Lemons, limes, grapefruit, kumquats, taste soo delicious.
I have seen my kids gobble up plates full of sour fruit as if left alone in a lolly shop.!
So how does that work?
Sometimes I think smell can revive memories very powerfully.
I can't abide "pickled herrings in tomato sauce" that my dad ate. i would thow up too at the smell of it.
Perhaps you too have a similar aversion to steak and kidney pie (Which I adore!)
I had 'Skinerian' Aversion Therapy when I was 18 with rum. Showing what a big man I was and becoming sick with it.
I couldn't stand the smell for decades (I finally, bravely, got over it)
I just came across this recent research
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The acute sensitivity of human olfaction tends to be under appreciated. "In general, people tend to be dismissive of human olfaction and discount the role that smell plays in our everyday life," said Gottfried. "Our study offers direct evidence that human social behaviour is under the influence of minuscule amounts of odour, at concentrations too low to be consciously perceived, indicating that the human sense of smell is much keener than commonly thought."
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Subliminal Smells Bias Perception About A Person's Likeability
"We evaluate people every day and make judgements about who we like or don't like," said Wen Li, a post-doctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurology and
Alzheimer's Disease Centre at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine and lead author of the study.
