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- The fastest connection to emotional memory is through the nose because the olfactory nerves project directly to the emotional brain.
- Like sounds, if we are not exposed to certain smells early in childhood, we may be unable to ever recognize them.
- You have taste buds on the roof of your mouth, sides of your mouth, in your throat, as well as on your tongue.
- It is difficult to really taste very warm or very cold food/drinks, so an ice cold drink can’t be tasted as well as a warmer one because the taste buds have been numbed.
- If you want to enjoy taste of food better, switch between different flavors every few bites. Your taste buds will adapt to a flavor after being presented with that stimulus for a few minutes, so give those buds a break and come back to the food to really taste it well again.
- Take the pain of a bumped elbow or stubbed toe, by rubbing it. This extra rubbing stimulus will confuse the brain’s pain sensors and cause you to feel the original pain less.
- Our brain filters out so much stimulus to keep us from feeling overwhelmed, like we don’t feel our clothes on us unless you think about feeling them.
- There are more neural networks going from the brain to the ears than from the ears to the brain because our brain does so much in shaping what/how we hear.
- Many people with dyslexia actually often hear language different even though they don’t have problems with their hearing.
- Our memories change our perceptions and vice versa, everything is connected and our brains are ever changing and growing.
