Odours are received by olfactory receptors, which send their axons to the first sensory
neuropils, the antennal lobes (in insects) or the olfactory bulb (in vertebrates). From here …

Olfaction enables most mammalian species to detect and discriminate vast numbers of
chemical structures called odorants and pheromones. The perception of such chemical …

To study the mechanism whereby odorants are encoded in the nervous system, we studied
the glomerular‐layer activity patterns in the rat olfactory bulb evoked by closely related …

Carbon chain length in several classes of straight-chain aliphatic odorants has been
proposed as a model axis of similarity for olfactory research, on the basis of successes of …

Background Contrast enhancement within primary stimulus representations is a common
feature of sensory systems that regulates the discrimination of similar stimuli. Whereas most …

Using a conditioning paradigm, the olfactory sensitivity of three squirrel monkeys to nine
odorants representing different chemical classes as well as members of a homologous …

We tested the ability of human subjects to distinguish between enantiomers, ie odorants
which are identical except for chirality. In a forced-choice triangular test procedure 20 …

Using the training procedure introduced by von Frisch in 1919, we tested the ability of free-
flying honeybees to discriminate a conditioning odor from an array of 44 simultaneously …

This article is part of a Special Issue (Chemosignals and Reproduction). As highly visual
animals, primates, in general, and Old World species (including humans), in particular, are …

Body odors carry informational cues of great importance for individuals across a wide range
of species, and signals hidden within the body odor cocktail are known to regulate several …