{"id":337869,"date":"2010-02-18T14:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2010-02-18T14:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T19:36:12","slug":"common-scents-honeybees-guide-neurological-discoveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/337869","title":{"rendered":"Common Scents: Honeybees Guide Neurological Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216225117.htm\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/images\/2010\/02\/100216225117.jpg\" width=\"273\" align=\"right\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216225117.htm\" >Science Daily<\/a>: Every moment of every day the brain is forced to process thousands of separate odorants from the world around us.<\/p>\n<p>Through a new study of honeybees, scientists at UQ&#8217;s Queensland Brain Institute have discovered the brain has an advanced ability to isolate specific odours and recollect smells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of information coming into the brain whenever a scent is detected and it would be difficult to process it all,&#8221; lead researcher Dr Judith Reinhard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve found that honeybees pick only a handful of so-called &#8216;key odorants&#8217; out of every complex aroma that they really learn. They may remember just two or three odorants from a couple of hundred, the rest are ignored.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colleague Dr Charles Claudianos said if you had to learn the hundreds of compounds your brain would be overwhelmed with information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/02\/100216225117.htm\" >Read more &gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3129&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3129\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily: Every moment of every day the brain is forced to process thousands of separate odorants from the world around us. Through a new study of honeybees, scientists at UQ&#8217;s Queensland Brain Institute have discovered the brain has an advanced ability to isolate specific odours and recollect smells. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of information coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}