Is the sense of smell your most powerful of the five senses?

The reason why you remember things easily with smell is because it is the only circuity that passes straight into the memory cortex without going through other areas first. The other senses have to pass through other layers of the brain.

The reason it is the strongest is because it was probably the first sense developed. Smell is really a reaction to the chemicals of the outside environment. You smell food, you want to eat it, you smell a fart, you move away. Earliest bacteria have signs of this; if there are food particles in the outside environment, their receptors on the outside of the bacteria will sense this and they they will start rolling towards it.

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Sight is definitely our strongest, most evolved sense. In other words, the one we rely upon the most for survival. The brain devotes more area to sight than any other sense.

Smell is believed to be the sense that is most related to memory, maybe because the olfactory nerves are the anterior most of all sensory nerves in the brain, and the prefrontal cortex is responsible for our memories. So I'm thinking the proximity may be responsible for this phenomenon, I'm not entirely sure.

of the five special senses. yes. i would say so. one can sense small concentration of certain molecules in the air where as light is only whats forced at your eyes and hearing is what creates a vibration on your eardrum. taste is also quite sensitive but not as. you cannot taste what is just hanging in the air unless it is heavy in concentration. touch is obviously what is on or very nearby your skin.

but the things you feel when you smell certain things is a memory thing. because the nose is so sensitive you can differentiate between different scents and therefore access memories more readilly.

Smell is the strongest evoker of memory. I remember one of my professors talking to me about this. Basically smell can bring back many memories very vivedly with strong intensity, where while sound or touch and even sight are not as strong a stimulus for evoking a memory.

Humans are eye-sight centered. All other senses take a second seat to the sight. But we can learn to be more noticeable of our other senses.

Memories are often associated with sounds, sights, feelings, tasts and smells.

Yes, it's perfectly natural for certain scents to remind you of pleasant things especially fond memories.

Not everyone has such an acute sense of smell. I would say my hearing is my most heightened sense.

I know exactly what you mean! Sometimes I get a whiff of something I haven't smelled in ages and then, it brings back this weird, deja vu - like feeling.

No, the visual sense is the most "powerful" as it has the highest spatial sampling rate and is bi-dimensional with a third dimension inferred through post-processing and the binocular effect.

Smell is definitely the strongest thing to remember. I'm just like you.