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Maybe a naive question, but could that help explain why your sense of smell adjusts? If there is a finite number of receptors and they require excitation to tri
by memling 3y ago
Maybe a naive question, but could that help explain why your sense of smell adjusts? If there is a finite number of receptors and they require excitation to trigger the sense of smell, it stands to reason that saturation would dull the sense of smell.
- mojo74 3y agoVisit somewhere smelly like a farm and your sense of smell is blown away by what you would call pretty odiferous smells. Stay there a few days and the smell seems to lessen. I guess the receptors get blasé about these molecules to help you cope with your new environment. So I would go with the idea of saturation.
- gumby 3y agoI imagine that acclimation phenomenon is neurological, as the same thing happens with background sound