Have you ever smelled something that transported you to a moment from your past? The human olfactory system is intimately connected to the memory centers of the brain. This short animation illustrates what's happening in the brain when odor memories are stored and retrieved.

From "The Connections Between Smell, Memory, and Health," published by Harvard Medicine magazine.

Read the article: magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/connections-between-smell-memory-and-health