
Professor Lucia Jacobs has found that people can create a map in their heads with scents as location markers. NPR replicates the experiment with a master sommelier, and discovers that olfactory navigation is lot more successful if you have a sophisticated nose. Listen to the interview on "All Things Considered" with Professor Jacobs discussing olfaction. Professor Jacobs is also partt of a team that was just funded by NSF, via the "Ideas Lab" competition on "Cracking the Olfactory Code" (http://currents.plos.org/