The sensation of perceiving a smell can be induced in people by using electrodes to stimulate the brain’s olfactory bulb ... further,” says coauthor Eric Holbrook of Massachusetts Eye and Ear ...
A study identifies five women who have a functioning sense of smell despite an apparent lack of olfactory bulbs—the region of the brain that processes odors. Jef Akst was managing editor of The ...
They found that a feedback loop between the brain’s olfactory bulb (seen here) and olfactory cortex helps the animal rapidly switch between the associations. Kaboom! The first time most of us ...
Biologist Prof. Dr. Tobias Ackels (40) from the University of Bonn will be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter ...
The odorants are then transformed into spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity in the olfactory bulb and central nervous system, and decoded by the brain to generate a perceptual ‘odour ...