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

Increased understanding of the early stages of olfaction has lead to a renewed interest in the
higher brain regions responsible for forming unified 'odor images' from the chemical …

Oxytocin promotes social interactions and recognition of conspecifics that rely on olfaction in
most species. The circuit mechanisms through which oxytocin modifies olfactory processing …

How are sensory representations in the brain influenced by the state of an animal? Here we
use chronic two-photon calcium imaging to explore how wakefulness and experience shape …

Animal–animal recognition within, and across species, is essential for predator avoidance
and social interactions. Despite its essential role in orchestrating responses to animal cues …

Sensory perception is not a simple feed-forward process, and higher brain areas can
actively modulate information processing in" lower" areas. We used optogenetic methods to …

Thousand of local interneurons reach the olfactory bulb of adult rodents every day, but the
functional effect of this process remains elusive. By selectively expressing channelrhodopsin …

Memory is coded by patterns of neural activity in distinct circuits. Therefore, it should be
possible to reverse engineer a memory by artificially creating these patterns of activity in the …

Understanding dogs' perceptual experience of both conspecifics and humans is important to
understand how dogs evolved and the nature of their relationships with humans and other …

Learning to adapt to a complex and fluctuating environment requires the ability to adjust
neural representations of sensory stimuli. Through pattern completion processes, cortical …