Researchers at University of Tsukuba and their collaborators have conducted a comprehensive analysis of the olfactory ...

The sprawling network of the visual cortex reigned supreme in the field of sensory processing, contributing significantly to our understanding of sensory perception. In contrast, the study of ...

Your nose’s superpower is thanks to a “superhighway” that leads directly into your brain. The olfactory system runs straight to the hippocampus, or your memory hub, whereas other sensory systems have ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

Closely related subtypes of dopamine-releasing neurons may play entirely separate roles in processing sensory information, ...

Given this brief introduction to the olfactory system, the two development schemes cited above would suggest very different developmental routes. While the protomap theory predicts a simultaneous and ...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered that pheromones essential for mating behavior in mice are recognized by the nose and not by the vomeronasal system, as researchers ...

Walking around my neighborhood in the evening, I am hit by the smells of summer: fresh-cut grass, hamburgers grilling and a hint of swimming pool chlorine. These are also the smells of summers from my ...

Nine out of ten patients with Parkinson’s disease suffer from defects of the sense of smell in the early stages of the disease - often years before the appearance of the motor symptoms that are ...

Scientists have undertaken to map the neural circuitry involved in the conversion of olfactory inputs into navigational behaviors in the fruit fly larva. The work is a new example on how systems ...