Can we smell Mondrian’s development towards abstraction by reconstructing the smell of his studios?
2022 marks the anniversary of Mondrian’s 150th birthday. To celebrate the event, Kunstmuseum Den Haag and curator Caro Verbeek teamed
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Why are some people more sensitive to the smell of sweat?
In a global team-effort, scientists, including NOSE member Monique Smeets, discovered genetic variants linked to the perception of the musky
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It smells yellow, high and smooth: Associations with odour across the senses
People can easily associate information across the senses, so-called crossmodal associations. For example, many people would agree that the smell
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Music mitigates the affective effect of the most smelly smells
In everyday life, we automatically regulate negative emotions by exposure to other positive stimuli. This happens without any conscious cognitive
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Caro Verbeek’s PhD project “In Search of Lost Scents” – A summary
NOSE-member Caro Verbeek succesfully defended her PhD project ‘In Search of Lost Scents’ on the 27th of October. Not only
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