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Jennifer Groh, “Knowing One’s Place: Space and the Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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Do We Localize Smell?

The sense of smell is a very special sense for some other animal, or dogsothers. And i think they do it in a way that's very interesting and has parallels with a with what we do in vision. We have toconstantly sort of take new samples as we move our eyes around,. When moving our eyes around, we're taking a new sample, and we're stitching those samples together. That's a process that you can see the dogs doing. But i don't think we have much sort of personal experience a implementing ourselves because we habituate to smell so rapidly.

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