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Neurophysiology of the Olfactory Bulb

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Science of Olfaction

Abstract

The olfactory bulb receives neural signals from a sheet of sensory epithelium located in the nasal cavity and transforms this information into output signals that are transmitted to central cortical structures. The olfactory system is thus similar to other sensory systems in that a two-dimensional array of receptors projects upon a two-dimensional cortex. It differs, however, in having no obvious inherent relation between odor characteristics and the receptive surface. One hypothesis for the neural coding of odor quality is that there are a finite number of olfactory receptor subtypes, each responsive to some particular property of odorous molecules. Different odors would generate distinctive patterns of responses across the several receptor types. These hypothetical receptor types might be segregated into separate regions of the epithelium, and this segregation might be conveyed topographically to the olfactory bulb, but there is no necessity of this.

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