Our sense of smell profoundly influences taste, with the brain merging olfactory and gustatory signals to create flavour. Research reveals that specific aromas can activate taste-processing brain ...

In his million-word novel “In Search of Lost Time,” French author Marcel Proust described how a sip of lime blossom tea and a bite of madeleine cake transported him back to his childhood. Today, ...

Janina Seubert receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement n° 947886) and from the Swedish ...

Taste and smell are so intimately connected that a whiff of well-loved foods evokes their taste without any conscious effort. Now, brain scans and machine learning have for the first time pinpointed ...

We tend to think of the brain as a collection of specialized regions: the frontal lobe handles decision-making, the amygdala processes emotions, and the occipital lobe translates vision. But most ...