Comprehensive Overview of Advances in OlfactionThe common belief is that human smell
perception is much reduced compared with other mammals, so that whatever abilities are …

Humans are traditionally considered to have a poorly developed sense of smell that is
clearly inferior to that of nonhuman animals. This view, however, is mainly based on an …

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Many aspects of animal and human behavior are guided by, or dependent on, the sense of
smellolfaction. This chapter summarizes the major facts of the anatomy, neurochemistry …

How do we smell? Our knowledge of how odor information from the environment is
perceived has greatly advanced since the discovery of~ 1,000 genes for odorant receptors …

Sensory stimuli are detected by specialized receptors of more than a thousand genes (Buck
and Axel, 1991). in sensory organs, and the signals hence generated flow Convergent lines …

Two traditional beliefs about olfaction are that the system is poorly understood and that it
functions poorly in humans. An outline of a theory of olfactory processing has in fact been …

The past 15 years have seen significant advances in the study of olfaction, with particular
emphasis on elucidating the molecular building blocks of the sensory process. However …

Olfaction is a vitally important sense for all animals. There are striking similarities between
species in the organization of the olfactory pathway, from the nature of the odorant receptor …

This chapter focuses on central olfactory processing in the human brain. As the
psychophysiology of human olfactory function is important for appreciating its underlying …