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Topic-Visual Distraction May Disrupt Your Sense of Smell

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Visual distraction May Disrupt Your Sense of Smell
Introduction
Sophie Forster and Charles Spence are the two authors of the article, "visual distraction
may disrupt your sense of smell." (Forster & Spence, 2018). The article source is from
psychological science journal which was posted on October 2018. The authors' thesis statement
is how the sense of smell gives someone information about the kind of food that they are eating,
type of environment they are in and different type of people they meet. The main points in the
article are positive and negative things the sense of smell can identify and adaptation of scents in
an environment. Another aspect is that someone can miss sensing a scent if there is a visual
distraction. A person’s brain can habituate to smell when they get visually distracted.
Article Analysis
According to the article, the sense of smell gives information about an environment,
people that someone is associating with and food they are eating. Though the sense of smell
helps a person in identifying different things, both positive and negative, they adapt quickly to
smell in the environment they are in. After some time of noticing a smell in a given environment,
someone’s brain habituates to the scent when they are distracted. The results of the study show
that distraction can hinder someone from noticing a particular smell that causes the brain to
habituate to it which causes the person not to be...


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