A new study reveals that smells actually change how humans perceive color.

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Study: Smells Change Our Perception of Colors

A new study published in the journal frontiers in psychology reveals that smells actually change how humans perceive color. Researchers had participants smell scents like caramel and lemon. While in a dark room, while simultaneously being shown a random color on a screen, participants would then have to change the color using two sliders with the objective of changing the color to a neutral gray. So the team found a weak but significant tendency for participants to stray from gray when exposed to different. For example, when smelling the scent of caramel, the participants would skew to a yellow brown color while coffee made them shift to a dark brown or reddish color. In other words, people's brains are making sense of the world by combining information from two or more senses. That makes sense to me. I had no idea this was a thing, but that makes complete sense. It does make sense and you don't have the time when you like light a really good candle, Hannah and it just kind of and you can, you can smell it and it has a very strong smell and it just kind of changes your perception too, right? Or even like smelling a lemon or fruit. You know, it, it does, it changes your mind. You kind of think, you do think in colors. This is, I had no idea. This is possible. Learn something new every day on the show.