An olfactory cocktail party: Figure-ground segregation of odorants in rodents

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1225-1232

  Rokni, Dan ^a   Hemmelder, Vivian ^a   Kapoor, Vikrant ^a   Murthy, Venkatesh N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CONDITIONING; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY;

OLFACTORY RECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SMELL;

EID: 84906664981     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3775     Document Type: Article

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