CSHL Professor Florin Albeanu and his team trained mice to associate a reward with a different sound or odor—but only one of these stimuli at a time. They found that a feedback loop between the ...

Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other ...

The latest research looked at a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which processes information about smell. Humans ...

Biologist Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels (40) from the University of Bonn will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter ...

A study identifies five women who have a functioning sense of smell despite an apparent lack of olfactory bulbs—the region of the brain that processes odors. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...

One significant area of research has been the mapping of olfactory glomeruli in the olfactory bulb, where OSNs converge based on the specific receptors they express. A study utilized advanced ...

Kaboom! The first time most of us hear the sound of an explosion is in the movies. Encountering the sound in the real ...

And still another difference is that olfaction is the only sense that involves the brain directly reaching out for information from the world: the olfactory bulb in the nose is literally composed ...

Some of the virus reaches and infects the olfactory bulb, the center in the brain connected to the sense of smell, by flowing up from the mouth to the nose. The research team determined that if ...

report that the piriform-to-olfactory bulb feedback in the mouse carries multimodal identity and reward contingency signals, which are re-formatted within seconds, according to behavioral context.