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Nature Neuroscience  6, 1124 - 1125 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nn1103-1124

Understanding the mind's eye...and nose

Stephen M Kosslyn

Stephen Kosslyn is in the Department of Psychology, 832 William James Hall, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge Massachusetts 02138, USA. smk@wjh.harvard.edu

New findings reveal that people sniff when imagining odors and that sniffing can modify the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the mental image. The work parallels findings in other systems and suggests common neural principles for mental imagery.

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