The stimulus complexity of naturally occurring odours presents unique challenges for central
nervous systems that are aiming to internalize the external olfactory landscape. One …

Natural odors, generally composed of many monomolecular components, are analyzed by
peripheral receptors into component features and translated into spatiotemporal patterns of …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Olfactory perception is initiated by the recognition of odorants by a large repertoire of
receptors in the sensory epithelium. A dispersed pattern of neural activity in the nose is …

Although it is agreed that physicochemical features of molecules determine their perceived
odor, the rules governing this relationship remain unknown. A significant obstacle to such …

Smelling monomolecular odors hardly ever occurs in everyday life, and the daily functioning
of the sense of smell relies primarily on the processing of complex mixtures of volatiles that …

Increased understanding of the early stages of olfaction has lead to a renewed interest in the
higher brain regions responsible for forming unified 'odor images' from the chemical …

Central to the concept of attention is the fact that identical stimuli can be processed in
different ways. In olfaction, attention may designate the identical flow of air through the nose …

No two roses smell exactly alike, but our brain accurately bundles these variations into a
single percept'rose'. We found that ensembles of rat olfactory bulb neurons decorrelate …

The relationship between odorant structure and odor quality has been a focus of olfactory
research for 100 years, although no systematic correlations are yet apparent. Animal studies …