Plasticity, the term we use to describe the ability of a nervous system to change with
experience, is the evolutionary adaptation that freed animal behavior from the confines of …

For reliable stimulus identification, sensory codes have to be robust by including
redundancy to combat noise, but redundancy sacrifices coding efficiency. To address how …

Social cognition guides social behavior. Subjects with proper social cognition should be
able to:(1) have reasonable social motivation,(2) recognize other people and infer their …

Relevant odors signaling food, mates, or predators can be masked by unpredictable
mixtures of less relevant background odors. Here, we developed a mouse behavioral …

Animals traversing different environments encounter both stable background stimuli and
novel cues, which are thought to be detected by primary sensory neurons and then …

Female mammals generally have a superior sense of smell than males, but the biological
basis of this difference is unknown. Here, we demonstrate sexually dimorphic neural coding …

Molecules—the elementary units of substances—are commonly considered the units of
processing in olfactory perception, giving rise to undifferentiated odour objects invariant to …

Pacific salmon are well known for their homing migrations; juvenile salmon learn odors
associated with their natal streams prior to seaward migration, and then use these retained …

Fear-and stress-induced activity in the amygdala has been hypothesized to influence
sensory brain regions through the influence of the amygdala on neuromodulatory centers …

In November 2019, the NIH held the “Sensory Nutrition and Disease” workshop to challenge
multidisciplinary researchers working at the interface of sensory science, food science …