From signals sent by the receptors, the brain understands smells as complex spatial patterns.

通过受体发出的信号，大脑将气味理解为复杂的空间图案。

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Spatial data can become rather complex and require quite a lot of space to store the information of the points that form a geometry.

空间数据可能变得非常复杂，需要很多空间来存储一个几何图形中各个点的信息。

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Similarly, people who excel at packing odd shaped objects in way that maximizes the use of storage space are able to do this because they have developed complex spatial reasoning skills.

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People rely on their spatial knowledge to build many other more complex or abstract representations including time, number, musical pitch, kinship relations, morality and emotions.

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Better spatial visualization is a must for dozens of professions: surgeons training for arthroscopic procedures, drug researchers modeling how complex proteins fold in upon themselves, petroleum geologists mapping miles-deep oilfields.

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