The smell will be more sympathetic

From a seemingly simple experiment, sociochemist Denise Chen has discovered that the sense of smell and emotion comes from a region of the brain, this 'overlap' arrangement has created a process: the nose is very touching than.

A new study suggests that people with a sharp sense of smell actually have a nose related to the feelings of others.

The delicate nose comes with sensitivity.

Scientists used to know that scent plays a big role in the animal world: Detecting delicate chemical changes in a mate or opponent can create a boundary between life and death.

However, between people, the scent is less important but more beautiful. For example, the description of scent sometimes goes into literature. Authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust and Albert Camus once had works that closely linked the scent and emotion.

These works inspired Denise Chen, a sociochemist at Rice University in Texas, and made her wonder if there was any connection between smell and emotions.

Chen said smells and emotions share the same structural and functional links. The area of ​​the brain that controls the sense of smell rests on the area of ​​the brain that controls emotions and contributes to each other's progress.

Sensitive - sensitive experiment

Women are more sensitive to smell than men and are also considered sensitive about their emotional expressions.

So Chen and graduate student Wen Zhou suggested 22 pairs of young girls living in university dormitories wearing identical t-shirts when sleeping.

After a night, these shirts smelled by that girl.

Chen gave each of them three T-shirts and said that there was a shirt worn by his roommate, the other two were worn by other students.

Subjects are required to identify a shirt worn by a roommate. They then participated in emotional sensitivity tests.

Subjects who choose the right clothes for their roommates tend to score high in emotional tests.

Researchers conclude that the sense of smell and emotions come from a similar area on the brain.