Sentences with phrase «olfactory memory»

Researchers wanted to know if our olfactory memory goes back even further than our verbal memory.

Functional neuroanatomy of Drosophila olfactory memory formation.

The role of Drosophila mushroom body signaling in olfactory memory.

Olfactory memory formation in Drosophila: From molecular to systems neuroscience.

Drosophila RNAi screen identifies genes that promote and inhibit olfactory memory formation.

These were clustered together in the same area of the brain as olfactory memory neurons.

However, for me, the oils in the rind nearly alway trigger those foul olfactory memories of the stink bug.

Other olfactory memories are conscious: they revive specific scenarios or emotions from the past.

Some olfactory memories are unconscious — for instance, you may recognize a rose's fragrance without remembering when you first encountered one.

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.

Not exact matches

For the adventurous, this olfactory exploration involves surrounding yourself with herbs, spices and oils designed to activate your limbic system — the part of your brain that governs emotions and memories.

They say that smell is most powerful sense for bringing back memories — something about the olfactory bulb in the brain's limbic system and how it forever links the scent of freshly - cut lavender to the security of your grandmother's guest room.

For example, the identification of your breast smell and that of your baby's is stored in both your olfactory system memories.

Olfactory receptors are closely connected to memory, even more than any other sense.

Samuel Weiss, director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, and his colleagues reported that nerve cells sprouted in the olfactory bulb, the seat of the sense of smell, and in the hippocampus, the brain's memory bank.

In humans the olfactory / memory brain of primitive nocturnal mammals has evolved into the more visual - auditory / memory brain that causes sad movies and sad songs to evoke lost loves and make us cry.

The olfactory system comprises six million to 10 million receptor cells (of which there are nearly 400 different types) and links to multiple brain structures and neural pathways, including those involved in memory, emotion and movement.

It goes from the nose to the olfactory bulb and then directly from there to the olfactory [processing area] but also to places like the amygdala and the hippocampal formation, which are involved in emotion and memory.

Caffeine potentiated responses of mushroom body neurons involved in olfactory learning and memory by acting as an adenosine receptor antagonist.

Smell (or olfactory) memory refers to the ability to recognize different odors in your environment.

A key to the connection between smell, memory and navigation is that olfactory bulbs have a strong neural link to the brain's hippocampus, which creates spatial maps of our environment.

Overall, fewer connections are formed between sensory and memory neurons, thereby disrupting the development of the olfactory circuit.

Epigenetically - effected hypothalamic GnRH secretion is central to my model of nutrient - dependent pheromone - controlled adaptive evolution, which was presented as «Olfactory - genetic - neuronal - hormonal reciprocity in learning, memory, behavior and in immune function» during a 1995 Anti-Aging medicine conference.

«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.

Now I am expanding my investigation on the olfactory system of the honeybee, performing in vivo calcium imaging and behavioral assays to study the neurobiological basis of the associative learning and memory.

Altered representation of the spatial code for odors after olfactory classical conditioning: memory trace formation by synaptic recruitment.

Drosophila DPM neurons form a delayed and branch - specific memory trace after olfactory classical conditioning.

To understand the cellular modifications that support learning we have characterized to a great extent a circuit involved in the formation of olfactory associative memories in the fly brain.

Indeed, the olfactory nerve is the only cranial nerve that has direct contact with the environment, which is why scent has the power to conjure childhood memories, calm the system, or, like Beeler mentioned, give way to an escape.

Your olfactory system is directly linked to the emotional center in your brain — so when you sniff something that brings back a good memory (like pumpkin pie) or makes you feel excited and full of anticipation (such as the smell of sunscreen), your body releases feel - good, relaxing chemicals that can set the stage for great sleep.

Essential oils are also processed by the olfactory bulb and the limbic system, the same system that processes thoughts, memories, and emotions, which can help us feel calm, encouraged, and so on.

The pure constituents in these oils stimulate olfactory receptors and activate regions in the brain's limbic system associated with memory, emotion, and state of mind.

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.

There is evidence of a powerful relationship between the olfactory bulb and the brain's limbic system, which is the part of the brain that handles memories and emotion.

Fazzolari's concoction of a unisex perfume might strike visitors as a desperately clever move: annexing olfactory sensation's power over memory now when the pictorially memorable seems beyond achieving.