olfaction
the act of smelling.
the sense of smell.
Origin of olfaction
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How to use olfaction in a sentence
They’re able to make finer distinctions in terms of their olfaction.
The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469) | Stephen J. Dubner | July 15, 2021 | FreakonomicsConverts say developing our olfaction can make us think differently and even speak and write more vividly.
The surprising business advantage of training your sense of smell | Anne Quito | May 6, 2021 | QuartzThe working theory I had was that the receptors for pheromones were closely related to those for olfaction.
Catherine Dulac Finds Brain Circuitry Behind Sex-Specific Behaviors | Claudia Dreifus | December 14, 2020 | Quanta MagazineIn contrast with color vision and sound, the stimulus in olfaction is multidimensional, not low-dimensional.
Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell - Issue 91: The Amazing Brain | Ann-Sophie Barwich | October 14, 2020 | NautilusDetails about the synthetic smell may help answer “fundamental questions in olfaction,” says computational biologist Saket Navlakha of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, who wasn’t involved in the study.
How to make a mouse smell a smell that doesn’t actually exist | Laura Sanders | June 18, 2020 | Science News
As the sole factor in sexual selection olfaction must be rare.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) | Havelock Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for olfaction
/ (ɒlˈfækʃən) /
the sense of smell
the act or function of smelling
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