Business as Usual

Wednesday:

There hasn't been much going on this week as far as interesting events. The project has again found it's routine, which makes it a little monotonous. Of course, all lab work gets to be that way after a while. I guess the most interesting thing to report is the trend our data seems to be taking.

Last week, we saw a particular trend of increasing taste and smell perception. I found this trend to be very promising. Our hypothesis is that we do see some sort of physiological response, and we are seeing something like that. The real question then becomes why we are seeing these responses.

I think that this uptrend in olfactory and taste perception is primarily due to a higher potential for concentration. Since the brain doesn't need to focus on processing the information from an entire sensory region, more energy can be spent on processing information in the other cortices. Now, I'm not even sure that this little theory is possible, but if so, then it could explain our results. We will have to see how the deaf studies turn out.