Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

The paper identifies differences in the ability of piriform cortex neurons projecting to different brain regions to drive learned aversion behavior.

The paper identifies odorant antagonists that reduce perception of malodors by interacting with olfactory receptors.

This study shows that natural and pathological aging differently affect the vomeronasal system and social behavior in mice.

The paper examines how LFP oscillations in the mouse olfactory bulb correlate with sniffing during dark and light periods, finding stronger correlations in the dark.

The paper identifies a molecular-level representation of odors that predicts receptor, neural, and behavioral responses across species and shows metabolic relationships in odor space.

This study quantifies how trigeminal agonists modulate olfactory responses by measuring Ca2+ changes and EOG responses in mice, showing that trigeminal activation reduces olfactory signal strength.

This study examines the vomeronasal organ in dama gazelles to assess its structure and function, contributing to understanding semiochemical communication and reproductive biology.

This study identifies a shared role for mec-2 and Stoml3 in olfactory behavior across C. elegans and mice, showing that they are required for odor discrimination but not odor detection.

The paper investigates how odor imagery, not perception, influences food cue reactivity and adiposity in healthy individuals.

This study identifies Arc-expressing interneurons in the accessory olfactory bulb that contribute to chemosensory social behavior plasticity through increased excitability and chemogenetic manipulation.

The paper uses semantic descriptors from language to predict odor mixture discriminability, outperforming existing methods by leveraging human perception data.

The paper identifies two pheromone receptors in rats based on coadaptation with their respective pheromones, showing coevolution between pheromones and receptors.

This study investigates EEG changes during odor perception and discrimination, finding that frontal theta rhythms reflect odor processing and could be used in olfactory-based BCIs.

This study identifies EEG correlates of olfactory processing during an instructed-delay task, finding specific spatio-spectral patterns associated with odor processing.

The paper identifies long-range GABAergic inhibitory feedback from cortical areas to the olfactory bulb, showing its role in modulating sensory processing and odor discrimination.

The paper studies the olfactory limbus in red foxes, finding it highly developed and complex, suggesting its value as a model for non-canonical chemosensory processing.

The paper presents a computational model of structural plasticity in the olfactory bulb that explains odor-specific subnetwork formation and differential learning effects during odor exposure.

This study examines how sex separation affects gene expression in the rabbit vomeronasal organ, revealing sex- and stage-specific plasticity in response to environmental changes.

The paper shows immature olfactory sensory neurons provide distinct odor input to the olfactory bulb, contributing to odor detection and discrimination tasks.

This study examines how sniffing responses to odors develop in rats, showing age-related differences in habituation and fear conditioning.

The paper uses high-throughput sequencing to analyze neuronal projections in the mouse olfactory system and finds structured connectivity along the anterior-posterior axis.

The paper identifies a non-canonical feedforward pathway for odor recognition mediated by tufted cells in the olfactory bulb, challenging the traditional role of the piriform cortex.

This study shows that mediodorsal thalamus neurons in alert rats dynamically encode intraoral olfactory and gustatory signals, including odor-taste mixtures and taste palatability.

The paper uses pseudotime analysis of single-cell RNA-Seq data to identify regulatory factors involved in the transition from multigenic to monogenic odorant receptor expression in mouse olfactory neurons.

This study characterizes olfactory neuronal cells from nasal biopsies using single-cell and bulk RNA sequencing, showing their neuronal similarity and utility in brain disorder research.

The paper shows that AP-2ε reprograms vomeronasal sensory neurons and their behaviors by controlling gene expression, bypassing cellular plasticity restrictions.

This study develops an automated olfactory matching paradigm to assess sensory and cognitive functions in humans, finding that accuracy and decision times correlate with perceptual certainty and odor complexity.

Pyrfume provides a unified framework to access and analyze diverse olfactory datasets across species and modalities, enabling novel analyses and benchmarks for machine olfaction.

This study shows how mice's piriform cortex neurons adapt to learn and distinguish odor mixtures, becoming more selective over time and improving population-level categorization.

The paper shows that the olfactory bulb performs concentration invariance computations independently and rapidly without relying on feedback from other brain regions.