Distracted people can be 'smell blind' Those busily engaged in tasks may not notice new smells Date: June 5, 2018 Source: University of Sussex Summary: ...

The study involved people who were either born blind or became blind before age 3. The scans showed that these individuals had heightened senses of hearing, smell and touch compared to the people ...

Vision loss simply makes blind people pay more attention to how they perceive smells. Advanced Search. ... "There is an urban legend that blind people have better smell than the sighted.

Universally, studies show that in blind "smell tests," the odor of middle-aged men is judged to be the worst — more offensive than samples from younger and older people. (Middle-aged women ...

Blind people may hear better; the deaf can have a type of enhanced vision. These “super senses” are not just learned behavior — the brain actually remodels itself, ... The smell cell that gets ...

WATCH: Blind, Deaf Dog Can Still Smell Her Owner Coming. ... Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, ...

One of the less-talked-about side effects of being blind: fielding many (many!) questions from us sighted folks -- enough questions, apparently, to program a YouTube channel. Tommy Edison, who is ...