The sense of smell uses fast dynamics to encode odors

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

Neuroscientists have discovered that mice can detect minute differences in the temporal dynamics of the olfactory system. The research team used light in genetically-engineered mice to precisely control the activity of neurons in the olfactory bulbs in mice performing a discrimination task.

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