Each organism must regulate its internal state in a metabolically efficient way as it interacts
in space and time with an ever-changing and only partly predictable world. Success in this …

Can machine learning crack the code in the nose? Over the past decade, studies tried to
solve the relation between chemical structure and sensory quality with Big Data. These …

Advances in theoretical understanding are frequently unlocked by access to large, diverse
experimental datasets. Our understanding of olfactory neuroscience and psychophysics …

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

Glomeruli are the functional units of the vertebrate olfactory bulb (OB) connecting olfactory
receptor neuron (ORN) axons and mitral/tufted cell (MTC) dendrites. In amphibians, these …

Monoterpenes are a large class of naturally occurring fragrant molecules. These chemicals
are commonly used in olfactory studies to survey neural activity and probe the behavioral …

The number of functional genes coding for olfactory receptors differs markedly between
species and has repeatedly been suggested to be predictive of a species' olfactory …

The olfactory system is an ideal and tractable system for exploring how the brain transforms
sensory inputs into behaviour. The basic tasks of any olfactory system include odour …

Modern humans live in real and digital environments dominated by sight and sound, but the
vast majority of organisms on the planet rely on information received through air-or water …

Recording and analysis of neural activity are often biased toward detecting sparse subsets
of highly active neurons, masking important signals carried in low-magnitude and variable …