Sentences with phrase «olfactory cortex»

The scans revealed different patterns of activity in the secondary olfactory cortex — a collection of neurons that mediate pleasant sensory responses to smells and tastes.

Even if humans could gather this information, our brains wouldn't know what to do with it: the dog olfactory cortex, which processes scent information, takes up 12.5 per cent of their total brain mass, while ours accounts for less than 1 per cent.

These are the questions guiding the work of Florin Albeanu, who is using the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex of mice as the subject of his current studies.

This pattern is processed and remembered by neural circuits in the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex.

The brain (specifically, the olfactory bulb and olfactory cortex) then looks at the combination of sensory neurons activated at any given time and interprets that pattern in the context of previous patterns that have been experienced and other kinds of available information.

If the glomeruli are relay stations for «input» from the outside world, it is mitral cells that provide the «output» from the bulb to the olfactory cortex and other processing areas in the brain.

These are the two primary tasks of the sensory end of the system — to feed information about odor identity and intensity to the olfactory cortex and other brain areas to enable an individual to take action.

When we encounter a new odor, these neurons send information about the whiff to a brain area called the olfactory cortex, leaving an imprint of the smell there.

Although we do not fully understand how the olfactory cortex encodes these memories, we do know that olfactory memories seem to be particularly rich — perhaps because the olfactory cortex is closely connected to the brain regions important for recollection.

The part of our brains that processes smell, known as the olfactory cortex, is closely linked to the amygdala, the section that processes and stores emotional memories.

The brain of a human is dominated by the visual cortex, but the brain of a dog is controlled by the smell or olfactory cortex, which is approximately 40 times larger than that of a human.