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Quick--What's That Smell? Mammal Brains Identify Type of Scent Faster Than Once Thought
November 16, 2017
NEW YORK, Nov. 17 -- NYU Langone Health issued the following news release:

It takes less than one-tenth of a second--a fraction of the time previously thought--for the sense of smell to distinguish between one odor and another, new experiments in mice show.

In a study to be published in the journal Nature Communications online November 14, researchers at NYU School of Medicine found that odorants--chemical particles that trigger the sense of smell--need only reach a few . . .

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