Essentials: How Smell, Taste & Pheromones Shape Behavior
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In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explore how your sense of smell (olfaction), taste, and chemical sensing influence memory, alertness, focus, and even communication between people.
I explain how these senses help us detect chemicals in the environment and respond to a variety of environmental cues. I discuss the connection between the olfactory system and cognitive performance, and I provide practical tools to enhance learning, sensory function, and brain health. Additionally, I examine how chemical signals exchanged between people subtly influence emotions, biology, and social bonds.
Articles
- Human Tears Contain a Chemosignal (Science)
- Human non-olfactory cognition phase-locked with inhalation (Nature Human Behaviour)
- Olfactory Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury: the Role of Neurogenesis (Current Allergy and Asthma Reports)
- Menstrual Synchrony and Suppression (Nature)
- A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking (eLife)
Huberman Lab Episodes Mentioned
People Mentioned
- Noam Sobel: professor of neurobiology, Weizmann Institute ofScience
How Smell, Taste & Pheromone-Like Chemicals Control You
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