{"id":197721,"date":"2024-10-15T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/smell-at-lightning-speed-surprising-research-reveals-rapid-olfactory-powers"},"modified":"2024-10-15T07:16:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:16:15","slug":"smell-at-lightning-speed-surprising-research-reveals-rapid-olfactory-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/smell-at-lightning-speed-surprising-research-reveals-rapid-olfactory-powers","title":{"rendered":"Smell at Lightning Speed: Surprising Research Reveals Rapid Olfactory Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smell-at-lightning-speed-surprising-research-reveals-rapid-olfactory-powers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that human olfactory perception can detect changes in odors within just a single breath, challenging the previously held view that our sense of smell is slow.<\/p>\n<p>By utilizing a sniff-triggered device precise to 18 milliseconds, they demonstrated that people can discern between two different odors in sequences as short as 60 milliseconds\u2014faster than a blink.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding Olfaction: Speed and Sensitivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery that human olfactory perception can detect changes in odors within just a single breath, challenging the previously held view that our sense of smell is slow. By utilizing a sniff-triggered device precise to 18 milliseconds, they demonstrated that people can discern between two different odors in sequences as short [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}