Neural basis of olfactory perception

Alan Gelperin, Ambarish Ghatpande

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Abstract

The neural basis of olfactory information processing and olfactory percept formation is a topic of intense investigation as new genetic, optical, and psychophysical tools are brought to bear to identify the sites and interaction modes of cortical areas involved in the central processing of olfactory information. New methods for recording cellular interactions and network events in the awake, behaving brain during olfactory processing and odor-based decision making have shown remarkable new properties of neuromodulation and synaptic interactions distinct from those observed in anesthetized brains. Psychophysical, imaging, and computational studies point to the orbitofrontal cortex as the likely locus of odor percept formation in mammals, but further work is needed to identify a causal link between perceptual and neural events in this area.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationInternational Symposium on Olfaction and Taste
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Inc.
Pages277-285
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9781573317382
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2009

Publication series

NameAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Volume1170
ISSN (Print)0077-8923
ISSN (Electronic)1749-6632

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Neuroscience
  • History and Philosophy of Science

Keywords

  • Neuromodulation
  • Olfaction
  • Perception

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