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  2. Docking theory of olfaction - Wikipedia

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    Three years after Moncrieff proposed the theory, John Amoore speculated further that the over ten thousand smells distinguishable by the human olfaction system resulted from the combination of seven basic primary odors correlating to odor receptors for each, much as the spectrum of perceived colors in visible light is generated by the ...

  3. Sense of smell - Wikipedia

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    The Lady and the Unicorn, a Flemish tapestry depicting the sense of smell, 1484–1500. Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris.. Early scientific study of the sense of smell includes the extensive doctoral dissertation of Eleanor Gamble, published in 1898, which compared olfactory to other stimulus modalities, and implied that smell had a lower intensity discrimination.

  4. Odor - Wikipedia

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    "Smell", from Allegory of the Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Museo del Prado. An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a smell or a scent caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive via their olfactory system.

  5. Sense - Wikipedia

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    Sensory organs are organs that sense and transduce stimuli. Humans have various sensory organs (i.e. eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth) that correspond to a respective visual system (sense of vision), auditory system (sense of hearing), somatosensory system (sense of touch), olfactory system (sense of smell), and gustatory system (sense of taste).

  6. Olfactory system - Wikipedia

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    The olfactory system, is the sensory system used for the sense of smell (olfaction). Olfaction is one of the special senses directly associated with specific organs. Most mammals and reptiles have a main olfactory system and an accessory olfactory system.

  7. 26 Delightfully Weird Finds For People Who Refuse To Be Basic

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    We've gathered 26 finds for people who view basic as just a five-letter word and embrace chaos as their love language. ... #7 When Your Stomach Decides To Write A ... Smells like Dr. Pepper. All ...

  8. Olfactic communication - Wikipedia

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    Smell is one sense that is often poorly coded in human communication in western culture [7] because humans have a hard time identifying smells and communicating them. [8] Researcher Asifa Majid at the University of York argues that there is cross cultural evidence that there are numerous languages that utilize coding olfaction in their language.

  9. Fragrance wheel - Wikipedia

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    A fragrance wheel also known as aroma wheel, fragrance circle, perfume wheel or smell wheel, is a circular diagram showing the inferred relationships among olfactory groups based upon similarities and differences in their odor. [1] The groups bordering one another are implied to share common olfactory characteristics.