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 …

The storage of information in the mammalian nervous systems is dependent on a delicate
balance between change and stability of neuronal networks. The induction and …

Odor memories are exceptionally robust and essential for animal survival. The olfactory
(piriform) cortex has long been hypothesized to encode odor memories, yet the cellular …

The primary olfactory (or piriform) cortex is a trilaminar paleocortex that is thought to
construct unified “odor images” from the odor components identified by the olfactory bulb …

Local inhibition by GABA-releasing neurons is important for the operation of sensory
cortices, but the details of these inhibitory circuits remain unclear. We addressed this …

Spatial and temporal activity patterns of olfactory bulb projection neurons underlie the initial
representations of odors in the brain. However, olfactory perception ultimately requires the …

Primary olfactory cortical areas receive direct input from the olfactory bulb, but also have
extensive associational connections that have been mainly studied with classical anatomical …

The primary olfactory (or piriform) cortex is a trilaminar paleocortex that is seen increasingly
as an attractive model system for the study of cortical sensory processing. Recent findings …

The olfactory tubercle (OT), which is a component of the olfactory cortex and ventral striatum,
has functional domains that play a role in odor-guided motivated behaviors. Learning odor …

The piriform cortex (PCx) is essential for learning of odor information. The current view
postulates that odor learning in the PCx is mainly due to plasticity in intracortical (IC) …