An important challenge in olfaction research is to understand how percepts relate to the
molecular structure of stimuli. Previous psychophysical studies showed that, whereas …

Studies of patients with focal brain injury indicate that smell perception involves caudal
orbitofrontal and medial temporal cortices, but a more precise functional organization has …

Although it is agreed that physicochemical features of molecules determine their perceived
odor, the rules governing this relationship remain unknown. A significant obstacle to such …

Odorants, inhaled through the nose or exhaled from the mouth through the nose, bind to
receptors on olfactory sensory neurons. Olfactory sensory neurons project in a highly …

A central concern in contemporary cognitive neuroscience is how stimulus information is
represented in the human central nervous system. One approach to this issue is to examine …

Olfactory perception depends not only on olfactory inputs but also on semantic context.
Although multi‐voxel activity patterns of the piriform cortex, a part of the primary olfactory …

Background Understanding the relationship between a stimulus and how it is perceived
reveals fundamental principles about the mechanisms of sensory perception. While this …

Odor names refer usually to “source” object categories. For example, the smell of rose is
often described with its source category (flower). However, linguistic studies suggest that …

Odor perception is inherently subjective. Previous work has shown that odorous molecules
evoke distributed activity patterns in olfactory cortices, but how these patterns map on to …

Natural odors, generally composed of many monomolecular components, are analyzed by
peripheral receptors into component features and translated into spatiotemporal patterns of …