How Does Scent Influence Learning?

1. Studies have found certain smells lessen need for redirection and improve student moods and persepctive toward environment

2. Appealing to the sense of smell in students will allow their brains to function using their natural processes

3. Your sense of smell is the "only human sense directly linked to the limbic system of the brain, the center of emotions"

4. "Proust Affect": memory recall as a strong unconscious reaction to a smell

5. One can recall facts based on smell: teachers can use smell to impress upon memory

6. Teachers can spend less time on redirecting students with the use of scents and more time on innovative ways to impart knowledge