The number of olfactory stimuli that humans can discriminate is still unknown
It was recently proposed (Bushdid et al., 2014) that humans can discriminate between at least a trillion olfactory stimuli. Here we show that this claim is the result of a fragile estimation framework capable of producing nearly any result from the reported data, including values tens of orders of m...
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2015-07-01
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| Serie: | eLife |
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| Accesso online: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/08127 |