Mary Roach Quote
Verbal facility with smells and flavors doesn’t come naturally. As babies, we learn to talk by naming what we see. Baby points to a lamp, mother says, ‘Yes, a lamp,’ says Johan Lundström, a biological psychologist with the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. Baby smells an odor, mother says nothing. All our lives, we communicate through visuals. No one, with a possible exception made for Sue Langstaff, would say, Go left at the smell of simmering hotdogs.
Mary Roach
Verbal facility with smells and flavors doesn’t come naturally. As babies, we learn to talk by naming what we see. Baby points to a lamp, mother says, ‘Yes, a lamp,’ says Johan Lundström, a biological psychologist with the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. Baby smells an odor, mother says nothing. All our lives, we communicate through visuals. No one, with a possible exception made for Sue Langstaff, would say, Go left at the smell of simmering hotdogs.