“I read that of our senses, only taste and smell pass directly to the hippocampus, where memory gets stored. Sights, sounds and touches get converted into thoughts and symbols before they continue on to the memory in the hippocampus. But smell connects directly to memory.”

“I read that of our senses, only taste and smell pass directly to the hippocampus, where memory gets stored. Sights, sounds and touches get converted into thoughts and symbols before they continue on to the memory in the hippocampus. But smell connects directly to memory.”

— Torrey Peters