Sentences with phrase «odor perception»

It has not been clear which receptors are expressed by these neurons and what role they play in odor perception.

Perhaps it serves mostly as a reminder that odor perception remains a challenge both for human scientists and artificial intelligence.

According to scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, many proteins involved in the highly sensitive odor perception of insects emerged rather late in the evolutionary process.

Separately, otorhinolaryngologist Thomas Hummel of the University of Dresden Medical School explored odor perception in depressed patients.

Compared with control subjects, he found, people suffering from depression were less able to detect weak smells; MRI scans revealed that they had smaller olfactory bulbs, the brain structures involved in odor perception.

A new ultrasound imaging technique has provided the first ever in vivo visualization of activity in the piriform cortex of rats during odor perception..

Rather, these neurons express the MS4A class of proteins, which were previously not known to play a role in odor perception.

It's not known whether Semaq Beri individuals display genetic characteristics linked to an especially keen sense of smell or if growing up in a foraging society boosts the activity of genes involved in odor perception.

A main goal of the project is to elucidate which brain areas play a causal role in odor perception.