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Humans Can Discriminate More than 1 Trillion Olfactory Stimuli
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All the Smells of the World: How many odorant stimuli can a normal human being discriminate? During psychophysical tests of odor mixture discrimination, Bushdid et al. (p. 1370 ) were surprised to find that humans can discriminate among more than a trillion different smells. Because the authors reduced the complexity by investigating only mixtures of 10, 20, or 30 components drawn from a collection of 128 odorous molecules, this astonishingly large number is probably the lower limit of the potential number of olfactory stimuli that humans can distinguish.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bushdid, C., Magnasco, M. O., Vosshall, L. B., & Keller, A.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-03-21
- Volume
- 343
- Issue
- 6177
- Pages
- 1370-1372
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1969133910
- Cited by
- 938
- References
- 8
- FWCI
- 39.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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