Researcher disputes claim that humans can distinguish one trillion odors
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 09:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A researcher is disputing recent findings that the human nose is capable of distinguishing at least 1 trillion odors. He says the data used in a 2014 study published in Science does not support this claim. He says this is important because those findings are already making their way into neuroscience textbooks, misinforming up-and-coming investigators and cutting off potentially productive lines of research that do not adhere to those findings.