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Laura Speed and Asifa Majid have published a new paper about how automatic associations between odor and vision can be an advantage for odor cognition. Odor-color synaesthestes, people automatically see colors when they smell things, were found to be better at naming odors, at discriminating between odors, and discriminating between colors, ...
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Amaris Zorggroep ontvangt bijna 100.000 euro subsidie om die vraag samen met de Wageningen Universiteit te onderzoeken. Bij veel mensen met dementie komt ondervoeding voor. Ook al in een vroeg stadium. Gebleken is dat bij ondervoede dementerenden meer gezondheidsproblemen voorkomen en dat de ziekte ook sneller verloopt. Dementie is na ...
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Two other great reviews came out this month tackling different perspectives of anosmia. “Anosmia - a clinical review”, is the result of Nose member Sanne Boesveldt’s clinical symposium at last year's AChemS meeting, including a patient perspective on losing the sense of smell with information on Fifth Sense, a nonprofit ...
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Excellent review by John McGann in Science on the human sense of smell titled "Poor Human Olfaction is a 19th Century Myth."; It summarizes the history of the idea that humans have a poor sense of smell compared to other animals and reviews the compelling neurobiological and sensory evidence that ...
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Jorg Hempenius toverde kunstwerken van zes beroemde schilders om tot geuren. Deze worden tentoongesteld in de #artSmellery in het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Nog te ruiken tot 10 juni in Inspiratiehuis 20/20 Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjdRZXai8-c ...
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