Sensation and Perception - Chemical Senses Pt3 - Analyzing Odorants
Detecting odorants is easy enough, but how in the world does our brain distinguish so many different smells, especially when we're bombarded by many smells at once, all coming from distinct objects?
This is a lecture video for a university course in Sensation and Perception taught by Dr. Brian W. Stone. You may wish to play it at x1.25 speed. As with anything taught at the undergraduate level the information here may be simplified, and at higher levels of study there is more nuance to all of it.