Sentences with phrase «human olfactory system»

The project is uniquely suited to provide novel insights about the human olfactory system, odor coding, and the interaction of the human olfactory and limbic systems.

Even differentiating between two rose varieties can be a snap because the human olfactory system — made up of the nerve cells in our noses and everything that allows the brain to process smell — is quite adept.

Without the dog, and its excellent sense of smell, acting as a sentinel, humans could not have evolved the anatomy needed for language, as this development left the human olfactory system diminished.

It essentially acts as an «electronic nose», and gives machines the power of smell by mimicking the human olfactory system.

Even better, right whale scat is pungent enough to be detected by human olfactory systems.

Not exact matches

Raman has spent a decade learning how the human brain and olfactory system operate to process scent and odor signals.

Whether or not humans possess an accessory olfactory bulb or have tacked pheromonal signaling onto the list of the main olfactory system's chores remains a matter of debate.

Mark Albers uses the olfactory system of mice and humans to help understand the early events of neurodegeneration in order to find ways to intervene early in the disease process before symptoms appear and distinguish early pathologic events from changes produced by aging.

SEMA3A deletion in a family with Kallmann syndrome validates the role of semaphorin 3A in human puberty and olfactory system development.

«The olfactory system is often an underappreciated sensory system in humans, even though we've all experienced the feeling of smelling a particular odor and having an almost instant flashback or emotional experience of an old memory,» said Filomene G. Morrison, BA, a neuroscience PhD candidate at Emory University and McLean Hospital, and the lead author of the paper.

Because the olfactory systems of all species work in a similar way, the findings can be used to draw conclusions to the human sense of smell.

For her postdoctoral work Ashlyn is examining the role of the accessory olfactory system and the Trpc2 gene in sexual differentiation while she continues her translational work on sexual orientation in humans.

Plus, the right scent can instantly transport us to faraway places and times past, thanks to the human body's elaborate olfactory system.

In indigenous Australians and Papua New Guineans, mingling with the Denisovans (the «other Neanderthal,» an ancestral human living primarily in Asia) introduced genes related to «spermatogenesis, fertilization, cold acclimation, circadian rhythm, development of brain, neural tube, face, and olfactory pit, immunity,» as well as «female pregnancy, development of face, lung, heart, skin, nervous system, and male gonad, visual and smell perception, response to heat, pain, hypoxia, and UV, lipid transport, metabolism, blood coagulation, wound healing, aging.»

Thanks to a highly complex and superior olfactory system, dogs smell at least 10,000 times better than humans.

It doesn't have a smell for humans but I see no reason why an animal couldn't have an olfactory system tuned to smell it.