Title: | Neuroscience: An Olfactory Homunculus in the Insect Brain |
Address: | "Department of Neuroscience, University of Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany. Electronic address: giovanni.galizia@uni-konstanz.de" |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.058 |
ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-0445 (Electronic) 0960-9822 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "Animals can follow olfactory traces to find food, detect a sexual mate, or avoid predators. A new study reveals that pheromone-specific projection neurons in the cockroach have a spatially tuned receptive field, and allow encoding spatial information of an odorant" |
Keywords: | Animals Brain *Neurosciences *Odorants Pheromones Smell;neuroscience; |
Notes: | "MedlineGalizia, C Giovanni eng Comment England 2018/03/07 Curr Biol. 2018 Mar 5; 28(5):R227-R229. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.058" |