INTRODUCTION Objects can appear remarkably stable despite the often fickle cues they
provide to our senses. For instance, a foraging mouse can identify and locate a piece of …

The ability to represent both stimulus identity and intensity is fundamental for perception.
Using large-scale population recordings in awake mice, we find distinct coding strategies …

Highlights•Odor information is encoded in the distributed activity of piriform cortex
neurons.•Piriform uses complementary coding strategies to represent odor identity and …

In awake rodents, the neural representation of olfactory information in the olfactory bulb is
largely dependent on brain state and behavioral context. Learning-modified neural plasticity …

The basal forebrain cholinergic system (BFCS) robustly modulates many important
behaviors, such as arousal, attention, learning and memory, through heavy projections to …

Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is a critical neuropeptide modulating the
mammalian stress response. It is involved in many functional activities within various brain …

Organisms must make sense of a constant stream of sensory inputs from both internal and
external sources which compete for attention by determining which ones are salient. The …

While animals readily adjust their behavior to adapt to relevant changes in the environment,
the neural pathways enabling these changes remain largely unknown. Here, using …

Insulin is an important peptide hormone that regulates food intake and olfactory function.
While a multitude of studies investigated the effect of insulin in the olfactory bulb and …

Each olfactory cortical hemisphere receives ipsilateral odor information directly from the
olfactory bulb and contralateral information indirectly from the other cortical hemisphere …