Odor Memory and Perception

Brings together cutting-edge research on odor memory and perception with the aim of showing how olfactory perception and memory influence each other at several levels of information processing (meaning, low and high brain areas) to create the manner by which olfaction shapes our understanding of the world and how we modify out behavior according to olfactory cues.

Edi Barkai (Volume editor), Donald A. Wilson (Volume editor)

9780444633507

Hardback, published 25 April 2014

370 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.5 cm, 0.86 kg

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume explores interdisciplinary research on invertebrate and vertebrate models of odor memory and perception, as well as human odor memory and perception. This book brings together a collection of authors that cut across model systems, techniques, levels of analysis and questions to highlight important and exciting advances in the area of olfactory memory and perception. The chapters highlight the unique aspects of olfactory system anatomy, local circuit function, odor coding and plasticity. The authors are leading authorities in the field.

1. Olfactory Habituation in Drosophila - Odor Encoding and its Plasticity in the Antennal Lobe
2. Active Forgetting of Olfactory Memories in Drosophila
3. Mixture Processing and Odor Object Segregation in Insects
4. Visualizing Olfactory Learning Functional Imaging of Experience-Induced Olfactory Bulb Changes
5. Mechanisms Underlying Early Odor Preference Learning in Rats
6. Adult Neurogenesis in the Olfactory System Shapes Odor Memory and Perception
7. Construction of Odor Representations by Olfactory Bulb Microcircuits
8. Coding Odor Identity and Odor Value in Awake Rodents
9. Circuit Oscillations in Odor Perception and Memory
10. Neural Mechanisms of Odor Rule Learning
11. Cortical Odor Processing in Health and Disease
12. Olfactory Insights into Sleep-Dependent Learning and Memory

Subject Areas: Neurology & clinical neurophysiology [MJN], Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]