The Hedonic Nose: Pleasure May Organize Your Sense of Smell

The nose has long been viewed as a disorganized sensory organ, its odor receptors strewn about with very little rhyme or reason. A study in Nature Neuroscience , published online September 25, challenges that notion. It suggests that odor receptors are grouped by the pleasantness of the odors they detect

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The Hedonic Nose: Pleasure May Organize Your Sense of Smell