Olfactory Research

One of the aims of systems neuroscience is to link neural activity in different stages of brain processing with specific sensations or percepts. This has been accomplished for our senses of touch and vision, but…

Olfactory navigation requires comparing of, odor concentration across samples distributed in space and time. One potential strategy of odor source localization is sequential (temporal) comparison: the animal chooses direction in the olfactory surroundings by detecting…