The stimulus complexity of naturally occurring odours presents unique challenges for central
nervous systems that are aiming to internalize the external olfactory landscape. One …

Natural odors, generally composed of many monomolecular components, are analyzed by
peripheral receptors into component features and translated into spatiotemporal patterns of …

Perceptual constancy requires the brain to maintain a stable representation of sensory input.
In the olfactory system, activity in primary olfactory cortex (piriform cortex) is thought to …

In most sensory modalities, neuronal connectivity reflects behaviorally relevant stimulus
features, such as spatial location, orientation, and sound frequency. By contrast, the …

The central processing pathways of the human olfactory system are not fully understood.
The olfactory bulb projects directly to a number of cortical brain structures, but the distinct …

The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Olfactory perception is initiated by the recognition of odorants by a large repertoire of
receptors in the sensory epithelium. A dispersed pattern of neural activity in the nose is …

Sensory information is transmitted to the brain where it must be processed to translate
stimulus features into appropriate behavioural output. In the olfactory system, distributed …

Stimuli that possess inherently rewarding or aversive qualities elicit emotional responses
and also induce learning by imparting valence upon neutral sensory cues. Evidence has …

The properties of cortical circuits underlying central representations of sensory stimuli are
poorly understood. Here we use in vivo cell-attached and whole-cell voltage-clamp …