Why is it that the brain can generate music with extremely high clarity but not as much with smells and tastes?
In: Biology
There’s no one way people’s brains conceptualise information like that, I for one can generate sounds and smells and tastes with equal clarity and quite strongly too, but I struggle with visual images in my head, it feels disconnected and foggy at best. Using an example of a fallen apple next to a tree, I can make out the outlines of objects, think of each component as a concept (the grass, the tree, the apple) or I can visualise things like individual textures, but not any of this combined. When it comes to audio I can hear it as clear as if I just played it back, with whole songs playing through if I want to. I can replicate tastes and textures of specific dishes I had over a decade ago, like how a specific curry tasted and felt like when I was visiting Indonesia in 2008, as if I was eating it right now.
Edit: got age and year mixed up in my head
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