The activity of neurons in the mammalian brain is known to contribute to the development of the brain at the early stages of development. While past neuroscientific studies have gathered evidence ...

Can you tell the smell of a rose from the scent of a lilac? If so, you have your brain’s piriform cortex to thank. Compared to many parts of the brain, the piriform cortex—which lets animals and ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers investigated the response of individual neurons in specific regions of the brain to olfactory cues. Through neural activity recordings during odor ...

The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals' brains evolved to tell them apart is something of a mystery. Now, two neuroscientists from the Salk Institute and ...

The image shows a section of the front part of the piriform cortex, an area of the brain involved in the sense of smell. The cortex layers are stained with florescent antibodies to better distinguish ...

Carl Schoonover and Andrew Fink are confused. As neuroscientists, they know that the brain must be flexible but not too flexible. It must rewire itself in the face of new experiences, but must also ...