The brain was large and apparently comparable in structure to that of birds, and, as in that group, sight rather than smell appears to have been the dominant sense.
Physiologically, taste and smell appear to be particularly subject to intersensory effects (interdependent).
Typed definitions and scientific descriptions of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell appear on a screen at the beginning of each section; there's a particular pleasure in finding that there's no dumbing down in the way information is stated.
So, along with 3D specs, audiences will be given scratch'n'sniff cards with eight smells that appear in the movie.
The time series was used to predict how many potential code smells would appear in future versions of the software with the selected solution applied.
A day after people in Staten Island and Queens complained of a strange, gaseous odor in their neighborhoods, and seven sought medical treatment, the smell appeared to have passed.
After analyzing the results, Dr. Devanand observed that a poor sense of smell by itself was not a predictor for Alzheimer's, but patients who did badly on the test while saying they had no problems with their sense of smell appeared more likely to develop the disease.
Across the tens of millions of cells that make up the human olfactory system, recognition of a smell appears to emerge from the combination of many such responses, much as the recognition of a face depends on identification of many different characteristics.
If air from your furnace still smells or appears dusty, or if you have dust allergies, look in the phone book for local services that will brush and vacuum out your furnace ducts.
Shubin shows that, although the mechanisms that allow us to smell may appear different, the way they function is fundamentally the same in such diverse creatures as lampreys, fish, rats, and humans.
