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Human Pairs Show Collective Benefit in Olfactory Perception Despite Individual Differences and Verbal Limits

2025-07-21

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<p>Olfaction is a limit case for human communication. Not only does genetic, personal and cultural diversity make us smell things differently, but perceptual and neurological factors are meant to make it challenging to verbalize our olfactory experiences, besides the affective value that they have for us. Here, we demonstrate that people still achieve a collective benefit in olfactory tasks when allowed to talk to...

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Literature Corpus work: 96fc86f7-0670-5136-8702-e03e134e7f1a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mceh2_v1

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