Psychology Update — 3 articles related to the topic of Sensation and Perception

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This week’s Psychology Update presents 3 articles related to the topic of Sensation and Perception.  Though the articles focus on different sensory and perceptual systems, the studies are fascinating and demonstrate the importance of understanding Psychology and Behavior in the context of S&P.   ARTICLE #1 TITLE How Do You Smell? | Science   DESCRIPTION… Read more »

Psychology Update — What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?

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TITLE What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?   DESCRIPTION This is a most fascinating article that would be classified in the Sensation and Perception chapters in the textbook.  Interestingly, those chapters devote the smallest amount of space to the sense of smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory).   The article begins with… Read more »

Psychology Update — Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells

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TITLE Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells   DESCRIPTION One of the strangest problems of Covid-19 is the loss of the smell sense (anosmia) or worse a distorted repulsive sense of smell.  “Of more than 4,000 respondents to a multilingual, international study of people with recent smell loss published in Chemical… Read more »