Sentences with phrase «information about odor»

Thus, signals coming from a given neuron provide information about odors that activate the specific receptor protein expressed by that cell.

Together, the findings demonstrate that Ggamma13 is essential for mammals to smell odors and extend the current understanding of how olfactory receptor cells communicate information about odors to the brain.

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Symptoms she reported were directly related to the information she was given about the safety of the odors.

Such differences in learnability might mean that mosquito brains have shortcuts for picking up information about certain odors that can make learning easier.

The researchers tested the ability of participants to identify, via body odor, their partner's or a stranger's chemosensory emotional cues — chemical compounds released by the body that have no noticeable odor but nonetheless transmit information about emotional states.

The mitral cells are not overwhelmed, but rather are able to broadcast information to the rest of the brain encoded by the glomeruli about the odor's identify and concentration.

This gave us baseline information about the schools» behavior, which we could compare to their responses when they were presented with the different odors.

A detailed interdisciplinary study of how neurons in the Drosophila larva extract information about external odor gradients to guide chemotaxis (Louis group, Current Biol 2015, Elife 2015, eLife 2016).