Tuesday, October 19, 2010

If someone can`t smell, it is possible, that he can`t discern the love of foods too?

I read a Darwin story about 2 brothers. One of them annihilate the other putting a cigar on the table and left the gas flowing within the room, and left. The other brother can`t smell, and fire up the cigar and die. If he can`t smell, how is possible that he fancy the cigar? They are two different senses. Although the perception of odor does affect how we perceive taste, the physiological processing is separate. Taste buds vs the system that processes smell. The brain have a way of interconnecting experiences that may hold given you the idea that both are needed for the experience, but explicitly not the case.
It's different parts of the brain that control respectively of those senses. Smell helps us next to taste contained by the sense that if something smells good, it's the evolutionary response that it is probably protected for you to eat. Just similar to if someone tastes something sour, the body know that it is probably rancid and you shouldn't eat it.

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