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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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Autores principales: Gerkin, Richard C, Castro, Jason B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4491703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26151673
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08127