Associating smell
Apr. 14th, 2003 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerSmell's an odd sense. We don't think about it much, but it's a fantastic memory trigger.
Scientists associated a smell with frustration for half their test subjects and then set them a task while exposing them to the same scent. Those that had had the association made were much more likely to give up on the new task.
More here.
Scientists associated a smell with frustration for half their test subjects and then set them a task while exposing them to the same scent. Those that had had the association made were much more likely to give up on the new task.
More here.
