Fig. 1
From: An intrinsic association between olfactory identification and spatial memory in humans
Olfactory identification correlates with wayfinding ability. a The wayfinding task involves learning the location of eight key landmarks in a virtual town. Participants first explore the town for at least 20 min, until they have visited every street and alley and passed by each key landmark twice. Then, in eight probe trials, participants are placed in front of one landmark and are asked to find the most direct route to another given landmark. b We found olfactory identification to be positively correlated with the percentage of target locations found (r = 0.26, Bootstrap BCa 95% CI [0.06, 0.45])
