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 …

Olfactory dysfunction is an early 'pre-clinical'sign of Parkinson's disease (PD). The present
review is a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of such dysfunction in PD and …

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

Olfaction is a vitally important sense for all animals. There are striking similarities between
species in the organization of the olfactory pathway, from the nature of the odorant receptor …

Sensation is an active process involving the sampling and central processing of external
stimuli selectively in space and time. Olfaction in particular depends strongly on active …

Olfactory signals are transduced by a large family of odorant receptor proteins, each of
which corresponds to a unique glomerulus in the first olfactory relay of the brain. Crosstalk …

Olfactory space has a higher dimensionality than does any other class of sensory stimuli,
and the olfactory system receives input from an unusually large number of unique …

Most sensory stimuli are actively sampled, yet the role of sampling behavior in sha**
sensory codes is poorly understood. Mammals sample odors by sniffing, a complex behavior …

Here we describe several fundamental principles of olfactory processing in the Drosophila
melanogaster antennal lobe (the analog of the vertebrate olfactory bulb), through the …

Input from olfactory receptor neurons is first organized and processed in the glomerular layer
of the olfactory bulb. Olfactory glomeruli serve as functional units in coding olfactory …