Lowell Lecture
SMELL – AN OLFACTORY ORGY
Date & Time
Jan. 11, 2022
Location
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street Watertown, MA 02472
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Sandeep Robert Datta, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and Venkatesh Murty, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard’s Center for Brain Science, and Dr. Eric Holbrook, Director of Rhinology at Mass Eye and Ear Hospital.
Presenting Organization
Contact
Mary Stack (webmaster@cambridgeforum.org, 617 495 2727)
How much do our noses really matter in making sense of the world? Smell largely remains a sensorial mystery because of the intricate way that scent, emotion and memory are intertwined in the brain. Research into olfaction, the science of what happens between the nose and the brain, has intensified in the past couple of years due to the huge number of people who lost their sense of smell due to COVID. Luckily, this condition, anosmia, is usually temporary.