Odor hedonics coding in the vertebrate olfactory bulb. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Whether an odorant is perceived as pleasant or unpleasant (hedonic value) governs a range of crucial behaviors: foraging, escaping danger, and social interaction. Despite its importance in olfactory perception, little is known regarding how odor hedonics is represented and encoded in the brain. Here, we review recent findings describing how odorant hedonic value is represented in the first olfaction processing center, the olfactory bulb. We discuss how olfactory bulb circuits might contribute to the coding of innate and learned odorant hedonics in addition to the odorant's physicochemical properties.

publication date

  • January 30, 2021

Research

keywords

  • Odorants
  • Olfactory Bulb

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7873110

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85099198649

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s00441-020-03372-w

PubMed ID

  • 33515292

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 383

issue

  • 1