The biological olfactory system is the sensory system responsible for the detection of the
chemical composition of the environment. Several attempts to mimic biological olfactory …

Sensory coding represents a basic principle of all phyla in nature: species attempt to
perceive their natural surroundings and to make sense of them. Ultimately, sensory coding is …

Over the last fifteen years, we have witnessed a rapid expansion in the development of
artificial odour sensing systems, or so calledelectronic nose'systems. Whilst the power of this …

Most animals have evolved multiple olfactory systems to detect general odors as well as
social cues. The sophistication and interaction of these systems permit precise detection of …

Odor coding relies on the activity of different classes of receptor neurons, each with distinct
response characteristics. We have examined odor coding in a model olfactory organ, the …

The olfactory system has the remarkable capacity to discriminate among a wide range of
odor molecules. This begins with the olfactory receptor neuron (ORN), which performs the …

Noses are extremely sophisticated chemical detectors allowing animals to use scents to
interpret and navigate their environments. Odor detection starts with the activation of odorant …

Odorant sensitivity and discrimination in the olfactory system appear to involve extensive
neural processing of the primary sensory inputs from the olfactory epithelium. To test …

▪ Abstract We examine early olfactory processing in the vertebrate and insect olfactory
systems, using a computational perspective. What transformations occur between the first …

Olfactory space has a higher dimensionality than does any other class of sensory stimuli,
and the olfactory system receives input from an unusually large number of unique …