does smell based memory affect the thalamus?
Thalamus The thalamus is located above the brain stem which is near the center of the brain. It is like a relay station that receives signals from our senses and then passes the signals to its corresponding area in the cerebral cortex.The thalamus receives signals from all our senses except smell.hort term memory allows a person to recall something after a short period of time without practicing or rehearsing. George Miller wrote a paper on short term memory called The magical number 7 +/- 2.. He concluded from his experiments that we could retain 5 to 9 items with our short term memory without rehearsal.