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 ...
For decades, neuroscientists assumed the inside of a mammal’s nose was essentially a jumble: more than a thousand types of ...
Using computational and theoretical models shows how adult-neurogenesis and spike-timing-dependent plasticity balance the flexibility and stability of odor representations.