An ongoing study by Mathilde Beaulieu-Lefebvre, a graduate student from the Université de Montréal Department of Psychology, has debunked the myth that the blind have a more acute sense of smell than the sighted. Vision loss simply makes blind people pay more attention to how they perceive smells.
“If you enter a room in which coffee is brewing, you will quickly look for the coffee machine. The blind person entering the same room will only have the smell of coffee as information,” says Beaulieu-Lefebvre. “That smell will therefore become very important for their spatial representation.”
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Title | Do the blind have a more acute sense of smell? |
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Author | Eric Barker |
Date | April 27, 2010 4:03 PM UTC (13 years ago) |
Blog | bakadesuyo |
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Original Link | https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2010/04/do-the-blind-have-a-more-acute-sense-of-smell/ |
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