Tuesday, December 19, 2006

How Well Can You Smell?

[q url="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2729958/&/amp;page=1"]Imagine yourself blindfolded and wearing earplugs: Could you follow a chocolate scent with only your nose to guide you?


Surprisingly, most of us can, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience this week.

Researchers put blindfolds, earplugs and gloves
on human volunteers, and asked them to find a chocolate scent trail on
the ground and track it to the end like a dog would. Researchers found
that volunteers could use some of the same smell techniques animals use
to follow scent trails.

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