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From the Ted Talk by Jen Gunter: How your sense of smell helps you savor flavor

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Here's what I think is so cool. The brain not only categorizes that itiraoomnfn as a particular odor, it may also begin to associate feelings, like pleasure or disgust and other modos and emotions with that odor for future reference.

For example, you sniff bacon, you eat it, your taste buds get salt, and then your body gets a whack of fat, which is an energy source. So the brain lvoes it and attaches a piivtose label to it. The next time you smell bacon, a sseaotinn associated with pleasure arises.

Now, there are a lot of smells out there, more than our 400 or so odor rrteepocs can detect. But people with a heathly working snsee of smell have odor receptors that can combine to detect anywhere between 10,000 to more than a trillion different odors.

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Here's what I think is so cool. The brain not only categorizes that ___________ as a particular odor, it may also begin to associate feelings, like pleasure or disgust and other _____ and emotions with that odor for future reference.

For example, you sniff bacon, you eat it, your taste buds get salt, and then your body gets a whack of fat, which is an energy source. So the brain _____ it and attaches a ________ label to it. The next time you smell bacon, a _________ associated with pleasure arises.

Now, there are a lot of smells out there, more than our 400 or so odor _________ can detect. But people with a _______ working _____ of smell have odor receptors that can combine to detect anywhere between 10,000 to more than a trillion different odors.

Solution


  1. positive
  2. information
  3. receptors
  4. moods
  5. sensation
  6. sense
  7. loves
  8. healthy

Original Text


Here's what I think is so cool. The brain not only categorizes that information as a particular odor, it may also begin to associate feelings, like pleasure or disgust and other moods and emotions with that odor for future reference.

For example, you sniff bacon, you eat it, your taste buds get salt, and then your body gets a whack of fat, which is an energy source. So the brain loves it and attaches a positive label to it. The next time you smell bacon, a sensation associated with pleasure arises.

Now, there are a lot of smells out there, more than our 400 or so odor receptors can detect. But people with a healthy working sense of smell have odor receptors that can combine to detect anywhere between 10,000 to more than a trillion different odors.

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Important Words


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