Blindness And Sense Of Smell

An ongoing study by Mathilde Beaulieu-Lefebvre, a graduate student from the Universite de Montreal 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…

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Filed under: Eye Health on April 27th, 2010