Sentences with phrase «process olfactory information»
The discovery of odor - detecting receptors in the fruit fly Drosophila may help scientists better understand how insects and eventually other animals process olfactory information and how odors...
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In addition, as with the human brain, the fly brain is compartmentalized into regions that process different sensory information (visual, acoustic, olfactory), and it uses the same types of neurotransmitters as humans.
This work also sheds new light on the still poorly known functioning of the olfactory system, and notably how information is processed in the brain.
These regions receive quite crude olfactory information very early in the brain's smell processing pathways, which may explain why people have such a hard time identifying odors.
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.