Coding and transformations in the olfactory system

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue , 2014, Pages 363-385

  Uchida, Naoshige ^a   Poo, Cindy ^b   Haddad, Rafi ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Neural coding; Olfaction; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

CODING; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; REVIEW; SMELLING; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904707534     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-013941     Document Type: Review

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