2024-10-22 12:10:00
Smell is our first sense, the one that connects us, already in the womb, to our mother. At the origin of all our likes and dislikes, both nutritional and sensual, why does a smell or perfume awaken so many emotions and memories? Does our brain have a nose? (Rebroadcast April 9, 2024).
Let’s rehabilitate an important sense, little known and underestimated or even despised: smell!
It is our first sense, already in the womb we feel the smell and the maternal perfume. Essential for nourishing ourselves as well as for bonding and connecting with others, the sense of smell is at the origin of our likes and dislikes… food but also sensorial and sexual, at the origin of many pleasant or unpleasant emotions. What is stronger than a smell, a perfume to awaken and tickle our memory? Does our brain have a nose? Why and how?
With Hirac Gurdendirector of neuroscience research at the CNRS, studies the brain’s representation of odors. For his work Smell: how smells affect our brain (Editions les Arènes).
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