What is smell?

According to Human Rights online, memory is our ability to encode, or remember experiences of our past.

The olfactory bulb

Conforming to How Stuff Works online, the olfactory bulb has access to our amygdala, which can process emotion and the hippocampus, which is responsible for learning. When you smell a new scent, you link that scent to a person, a place or a feeling. Your brain creates a “bridge” from the smell until your brain. When you smell chlorine in summer at the pool, the next time you smell it you will remember the pool.

When the sense of smell is present

As stated in Air Aroma online, we often take our sense of smell in daily lives for granted and think we really rely on our ears or eyes. Smell is an essential sense for our lives and to the survival of the fittest for our species in the past. Nowadays, humans rely less on smell.

What the smell can feel

As reported by Politec online, smell is our primitive sense and is located in the same part as the emotional and creative part of our head. The smell allows us to identify danger, food, mates and related parts, like perfume on people. In agreement to Medical Dictionary online, smell is the ability to distinguish odors.

Real-life examples

An example of the need of smell in our lives is when a baby wolf is lost on the street and starving, with pain. As a wolf can smell things from miles, it detects his mother’s smell, so it can eat and rest. In consonance with Ambius online, another example of the sense of smell in our lives is when we think of the five senses. Your mind might leap first to your sense of sight and all the visual wonders. For now you might be surprised by the importance of the role the sense of smell has in your everyday decisions, emotions and memories.

Felipe’s memory

When I was in year 1, I remember the day when I cut my mouth and detected the smell of blood. Consequently, when I detect this smell I remember that day, that feeling, that moment and place.

The influence smell has in our lives

According to Ambius online, smell has a great influence on our lives, and  are all connected with our brands. Dr. Allen, a doctor who has conducted many experiments, states that “The part of the brain that smells and tastes is the emotional part”. Smell is essential to our lives, without it we won’t survive.

Sources:

http://www.human-memory.net/intro_what.html

http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/smell3.htm

http://www.air-aroma.com/blog/why-is-smell-important

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sense+of+smell

http://www.ambius.com/blog/5-ways-smell-influences-your-everyday-life/

By Luiz Felipe

Memories

The sense of smell can make you recall a lot of memories, and the memories are reviewing facts, events, and impressions of the experience that you lived. The smell can influence people´s moods and even affect their work performance, and according to How Stuff Works online, “smell can call up memories and powerful responses, almost instantaneously”.

The importance of smell

Smell is vital for survival, as it can alert us of danger, such as when there is a gas leak or a fire, or even when you go to a restaurant and can smell the food and see if it is not rotten.

How memories work

According to How Stuff Works online, “memory labels a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we retain information and reconstruct past experiences, usually for present purpose.”

A significant memory

Concerning a personal experience, from K2 to year one, we ate at the little restaurant, and all the time I smell the food I remember when I was little and all the days when I went there and could smell the food.

Conclusion

Summing up, smell is really important for our lives. It can warn you of danger and remind you of memories that are also important. Moreover, both can make you have fun, and you can also learn from it. You can even save yourself and other people with the sense of smell, such as when the house is on fire and you know how the smell might warn you.

Sources:

• http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/smell3.htm

• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/

• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/memory

http://www.air-aroma.com/blog/why-is-smell-important

Introduction

            Memory, what is it? Memory is not that complicated, you can understand how it works if you continue reading this article. You will find how it works, what memory is, and why it is so important.

What is memory?

            To begin with, memory is the ability to encode, store, retain and recall moments, smells that have a meaning to you, or someone that you miss or remember. Also, the way it works starts with a part of the brain called limbic system. Besides, this system is closely connected to our memory, and it controls our mood, memory behavior and emotion.

A true story

            In the same way, there is a story of a girl that suffered an accident; she just got some burns, a few. She was alone, cooking for herself and forgot to turn off the stove. The paper towels caught on fire, and then the fire started. She was on her living room and smelled the fire. Fortunately, she had time to run from her house.

My favorite Stance Dual memory

            In Stance Dual School, a smell that I remember until today is the scent of my friend´s perfume; however, this friend doesn´t study here anymore. Moreover, the smell of rain reminds me of the school, because when it rains I can feel a humid scent in the air.

Conclusion

            Summing up, the sense of smell is important to us because we can use it in dangerous situations. Smell can affect and transform our lives easily. For example, when we are walking on the street and can detect the smell of a person that we know is dead, we feel sad for the rest of the day. For these reasons, the sense of smell is the most important one, in my opinion.

Sources:

http://www.human-memory.net/

http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/a/memory.htm

Jornal Nacional, television program, Globo TV, Brazil, 2015.

Introduction 

What is memory?

Memory is a human ability to “store” information that your brain received, it gives us the capability of learning things without forgetting them. Your memory can affect you, your mood, etc. Another element that can affect these aspects mentioned above is the sense of smell.

Memory linked to smell

According to Fifth Sense online, an organization that studies the sense of smell, “The sense of smell is closely linked to memory, probably more so than any of our other senses.” To confirm, a research was done. The conclusion of the research was that, after one year people can remember a scent or smell with 65% of accuracy, while a visual memory reduces to 50% after only a few months.

The science behind it

For those that want to know a little more about the science behind the sense of smell, the organs of the smell are small patches of olfactory cells in the nasal mucous membrane. One patch is located in each of the two main compartments of the back of the nose. The olfactory cells are connected to the brain by the first olfactory nerve.

Conclusion

Concluding, both the sense of smell and memory are crucial for our organism and one helps the other. It is so important because it can change our daily life. Imagine if you couldn´t smell what you were eating and you didn’t know if it was good or bad before tasting it, or if you eat a dish again without remembering that you don´t like it.

Sources:

• http://www.air-aroma.com/blog/why-is-smell-important
• http://www.fifthsense.org.uk/what_is_smell/psychology/
• http://www.human-memory.net/intro_what.html

What are they?
Memory, conforming to Dictionary online, is “the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events or impressions.” And a scent can bring on a flood of memories, influence people’s moods and even affect their work performance.
Memory
In scientific papers, memory labels a diverse set of cognitive capacities by which we retain information and reconstruct past experiences, usually for present purposes. Also, memories can make us have fun with friends and family, and make us learn with ours and others’ mistakes, as reported by Plato Stanford online.
Smell
Regarding smell, it is an important sense as it can alert us to danger, like gas leak, fire or rotten food, but also closely linked to parts of the brain that process emotion and memory. Unpleasant and bad smells actually send pain signals to the brain to warn us of possible danger. So, smell is vital for the survival of most humans and animals, as it enables them to track food and water, find a mate and even communicate. Although our sense of smell is not as acute as in other animals, we know that humans are able to detect up to 10,000 different odor molecules, as stated in How Stuff Works online.
Memories with smells
Sometimes, we humans have memories because of smells that our own selves felt. Concerning a memory that I have in my school involving smell, it happened when I studied in years 4C and 5C, our classroom was above the restaurant. Some hours before lunch we could smell the food and some people were also able to decipher what it was.
Conclusion
In conclusion, smell is crucial for our lives, it can warn us of danger and provide us memories that are also essential, because it will allow us to have fun and learn with ours or others mistakes. Moreover, they can work together and make marvelous things.

Sources:
 http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/smell3.htm
 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/memory/
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/memory
 http://www.air-aroma.com/blog/why-is-smell-important