Sentences with phrase «discriminate by odor»

Otherwise, he may discriminate by odor which stools have been treated and which have not.

Otherwise, he may discriminate by odor, smelling which stools have been treated and which have not.

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In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint, new research shows that humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors.

«This discovery strongly suggests that the brain must be interpreting information from these receptors using a very different strategy from the one used by the brain to discriminate most odors,» Datta says.

They found that 65 percent of tubercle cells from 23 anesthetized mice were activated by at least one of five odors — an important finding in its own, because no one knew if tubercle cells could discriminate odors, a process thought to be exclusive to the part of the brain known as the piriform cortex.

In a world perfumed by freshly popped popcorn and exhaust fumes, where sea breezes can mingle with the scents of sweet flowers or wet paint, humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors.