Science is perception: what can our sense of smell tell us about ourselves and the world around us?
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Science is perception: what can our sense of smell tell us about ourselves and the world around us?
Human sensory processes are well understood: hearing, seeing, perhaps even tasting and touch--but we do not understand smell--the elusive sense. That is, for the others we know what stimuli causes what response, and why and how. These fundamental questions are not answered within the sphere of smell science; we do not know what it is about a molecule that ... smells. I report, here, the status ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1364-503X,1471-2962
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0117