From chemotaxis to the cognitive map: The function of olfaction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 10693-10700

  Jacobs, Lucia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Limbic; Memory; Orientation; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; BIRD; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHEMOTAXIS; COGNITION; DEUTEROSTOMIA; FISH; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMMAL; MEMORY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSHROOM BODY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPTILE; REVIEW; SMELLING; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTHROPODA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; MAMMALIA; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CHEMOTAXIS; COGNITION; HUMANS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; SMELL;

EID: 84866157108     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201880109     Document Type: Review

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