Olfactory memory

Parfums have aphrodisiac powers attributed to them? Indeed, it seems. Many of them contain substances similar to male pheromones and are therefore a stimulative effect on the body, such as a fast heart rate, symptom enough to not actually know if the perfume or who uses what we Exciting.

But in general, all the flavors have a physiological stimulant. It is the amazing power of olfactory memory, whose accuracy is surprising to psychologists in their studies. The olfactory memory has a very distinctive feature: in addition to registering the smell, develops a sensory and emotional context. Just a smell to revive a distant memory in their highest integrity. A study was made to a group of people to smell aromas of a hundred and one years after they were given to smell the same scents. Simultaneously, a similar study, but with a hundred images to assess visual memory.

The result was amazing: all the pictures are forgotten after four months, while 60 percent of the aromas were still remembered after one year. The scientists conclude that this happens because there are myriad connections between the field olfactory nerve and the auditory and visual memory, which ends with an inter perfume, a specific aroma and creates around it a frame, a context that generates visual and auditory accurately remember.