Neuroscience: An Olfactory Homunculus in the Insect Brain

Curr Biol. 2018 Mar 5;28(5):R227-R229. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.058.

Abstract

Animals can follow olfactory traces to find food, detect a sexual mate, or avoid predators. A new study reveals that pheromone-specific projection neurons in the cockroach have a spatially tuned receptive field, and allow encoding spatial information of an odorant.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain
  • Neurosciences*
  • Odorants*
  • Pheromones
  • Smell

Substances

  • Pheromones