Cognitive Skills can be affected by your sense of smell
Take a whiff of air. What you’re smelling may not be a combination of all of the things in your surroundings, but actual Take a whiff of air. What you’re smelling may not be a combination of all of the things in your surroundings, but actually what only one of your nostrils detects.
New research in the journal Current Biology suggests that nostrils may actually send competing signals to the brain, and that what you think you smell isn’t the whole story.
“When the nostril encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them such that we perceive predominantly one smell at a time, followed by another smell, and they alternate,” said Denise Chen, assistant professor of psychology at Rice University. ly what only one of your nostrils detects.
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