Olfaction

Mini Critique #2: Atmospherics In recent decades, stores, malls, restaurants, and all kinds of businesses have learned to manipulate customers’ five senses by utilizing the techniques of atmospherics, in order to push customers to spend their money impulsively and emotionally; therefore, businesses can make more profit. According to what Douglas Rushkoff argues in his book, Coercion, the floor plan, temperature, lighting, sounds, smells, and other elements are all designed to create a “consuming…

The Circles of Sexuality There are many different levels to be understood when it comes to sexuality, not only yours, but also your partner’s values, feelings, and attitudes towards sexuality. With so many different views towards sexuality, it is better to talk to your partner about how they feel on the subject without assuming you know. With learning about sexuality, intimacy, sexualization, sexual identity, and sexual health & reproduction, I feel more confident in knowing what I feel is…

Almost everyone has experienced food differently when they are sick, or have been affected by their senses when a food looks unappealing. It’s almost like having a stuffy nose can make food seem more bland or unenjoyable, or like a certain appearance of a food can influence the way one perceives its taste. This actually does occur, because our senses do in fact influence one another. Smell and taste are both identified by a chemical sensation system, with smell being processed by the olfactory…

In Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, the protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, is described mainly through his supernatural ability to smell and his obsession with scents. Grenouille’s purpose in life was to create perfumes which evoked strong emotional reactions from the people surrounding him. However, most of the olfactory concepts illustrated in this fictitious story are exaggerated in comparison to actual scientific evidence. Throughout the novel, Grenouille often…

The Effect of Essential Oils on Physical and Emotional Well-Being I chose to look closely at Dr. Mercola’s article “Essential Oils Support Physical and Emotional Well-Being.” In this article, Dr. Mercola talks about the effect of essential oils and how they support physical and emotional well- being. Being that people smell things differently from one another, smells can have different meaning to different people. This article looks at Aromatherapy and how it allows us to capture the olfactory…

Senses are a vital necessity in human life. Senses consist of sight, sounds, smell, tastes, and texture. A main function of the senses is to maintain homeostasis. There are two senses; general and special. “General senses are those with receptors widely distributed throughout the body, including skin, various organs and joints” ( ,Pg. 444). “Special senses have more specialized receptors and are confined to structure in the head, such as eyes and ears”( ,Pg.444). Over time, scientists…

For as long as I can recall I have enjoyed the ability to observe society and those that live within it, henceforth, recently in the past weeks I have enjoyed spending time with a few close acquaintances from going to a public restaurant to enjoying a motion picture flick. In all these activities I was able to not only observe the public but the environment around us and found some interesting aspect that stood out to me. Observing while spending time socialize is anything from easy as I felt…

Smoking has been around for centuries but yet most of us hate that it still is. Smokers do not realize the effects that smoking has on them and others. Smoking should not be done in public in my opinion. It looks like nothing, but it 's only doing more harm than good. The stench of smoking is so disgusting and no one wants to go around smelling like some burnt garbage. Smoking has caused health problems and adds to the pollution of the world. According to the world health organizations, more…

To be able to create a computer which will be more like a human, the humans should be focusing on developing some input devices for perception, processor and memories to be able to store information like a human, software to perform, output devises to replace human hands and feet, permanently storage device and network for communication. Just creating all of this wouldn’t be enough. Inventors should be more focusing on a human sensors and perception which is very hard to program into a computer.…

Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) is an organic compound that contains crystals. The molecular formula of PTC is C7H8N2S. The ability to taste PTC is a dominant trait. A chemist named Arthur Fox was the first person to observe the different taste reaction to PTC (Wooding 2006). In 1931, Arthur accidently blew powdered PTC into the air and his coworker believed that it was bitter. When Arthur tasted the PTC, he tasted nothing at all. He tested his friends and family members with the PTC sample. Arthur…