Wednesday, March 8, 2017

How the nose knows: Neurobiology of odor detection

How doe a mammal know what a smell is, and more importantly, how does a mammal learn new smells? Recent research suggests that different kinds of neurons reorganize in novel ways in response to olfactory signals to produce an olfactory memory. Below is a video made by the research team that explains this. If that…

source http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/03/08/how-the-nose-knows-neurobiology-of-odor-detection/

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