ArticleBrain research bulletin2007
Characteristic component odors emerge from mixtures after selective adaptation.
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- Recognition of the Component Odors in Mixtures.Chemical senses · 2017Article
- A Mathematical Model of the Olfactory Bulb for the Selective Adaptation Mechanism in the Rodent Olfactory System.PloS one · 2016Article
- Normalized Neural Representations of Complex Odors.PloS one · 2016Article
- Genetic Vulnerability to Menthol Cigarette Preference in Women.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Article
- The perception of odor objects in everyday life: a review on the processing of odor mixtures.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Review
- An axis of good and awful in odor reception.Nature neuroscience · 2011Article
- Time and intensity factors in identification of components of odor mixtures.Chemical senses · 2010Article
- Cracking taste codes by tapping into sensory neuron impulse traffic.Progress in neurobiology · 2008Review
- Neural computations with mammalian infochemicals.Journal of chemical ecology · 2008Review
- Human olfactory detection of homologous n-alcohols measured via concentration-response functions.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2008Article
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Abstract
Humans cannot reliably identify the distinctive characteristic odors of components in mixtures containing more than three compounds. In the present study, we demonstrate that selective adaptation can improve component identification. Characteristic component odors, lost in mixtures, were identifiable after presenting other mixture constituents for a few seconds. In mixtures of vanillin, isopropyl alcohol, l-menthol and phenethyl alcohol, this rapid selective adaptation unmasked each component. We suggest that these findings relate directly to how olfactory qualities are coded: olfactory receptors do not act as detectors of isolated molecular features, but likely recognize entire molecules closely associated with perceived olfactory qualities or "notes". Rapid and focused activation of a few distinct receptor types may dominate most odor percepts, emphasizing the importance of many dynamic and specific neural signals. An interaction between two fundamental coding strategies, mixture suppression and selective adaptation, with hundreds of potential olfactory notes, explains humans experiencing the appearance and disappearance of identifiable odors against ambient mixture backgrounds.
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