Olfactory discrimination in the rabbit olfactory glomerulus.
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Slow potentials evoked by odor stimulation were recorded from individual glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. Systematic analysis of responses to nine different, arbitrarily selected stimuli strongly suggests a certain amount of discrimination. This fact seems to reflect in the first synapse of the olfactory tract the type of discrimination that was recently demonstrated within olfactory neuroepithelium.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 153 3732 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966