Rodent Sniffing a Shifting Odor 'plume' (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Rodent Sniffing a Shifting Odor 'plume'

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The investigators discovered that two types of neuronal processors found in the rat olfactory bulb solve the difficult problem of identifying fluctuating environmental odors (which travel in plumes, depicted here) through linear summation. It's an operation no less straightforward than the one a child uses to add or multiply numbers.

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Albeanu Lab, CSHL

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