date:Jul 21, 2021
red, participants made more mistakes, meaning there was something about those delivery systems to the nose that altered their ability to recognize similar scents, thereby supporting the duality of smell hypothesis.
Word perception plays a role
The scientists were most surprised, however, to find that participants were also better at matching aromas when the reference scent the one they sought to match was not labeled with its familiar name.
The less they knew about the reference aroma, the