Day: October 12, 2021

You catch a whiff of freshly-baked banana bread, and suddenly you are on the porch of your grandmother’s summer house, looking for dragonflies in the evening heat. Or perhaps a vendor full of mint-chocolate goodness throws you back into the anxiety of your finals when you try to chew your troubles away. In any case, what you experience is a neuroscience phenomenon known as the Proust effect - named…