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	Smell It First, Why Childhood Smells Mean So Much

mcsmithblack

11-14-2009 3:21 PM

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mcsmithblack says:

Ah, the signature fragrance of Crayola crayons...
And, this issue of New Scientist is simply dynamite. I suggest you cruise it.

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</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18132-why-smells-from-childhood-mean-so-much.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn18132"><P class="infuse">Why does the hint of certain smells instantly transport you back to childhood? It may be because the first smell you associate with an object is given privileged status in the brain</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18132-why-smells-from-childhood-mean-so-much.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn18132"><P class="infuse">Yeshurun concludes that the brain reserves a special pattern of activity for memories that represent the first time we have associated a smell with a particular thing – and that such pairings are most likely to be laid down in childhood.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18132-why-smells-from-childhood-mean-so-much.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn18132"><P class="infuse">This makes sense, says <A target="ns" href="http://www.rachelherz.com/">Rachel Herz</A>, author of <A target="ns" href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780060825379/The_Scent_of_Desire/index.aspx"><I>The Scent of Desire: Discovering our enigmatic sense of smell</I></A> and visiting professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. "The evolutionary implication is that the situation in which you first encounter an odour is likely a reliable maker for its meaning, and it is highly adaptive to learn that meaning so that the odour can be responded to appropriately in the future."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/998AE288-F39C-4358-B940-5554E5EED3E1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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