ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Neonatal representation of odour objects: distinct memories of the whole and its parts.
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- Developmental Switch From Elemental to Configural Processing of Odor Mixtures in Humans.Developmental psychobiology · 2026Article
- Odour learning concentration influences concentration range of conditioned response in newborn rabbits.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dynamic developmental changes in neurotransmitters supporting infant attachment learning.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Biological constraints on configural odour mixture perception.The Journal of experimental biology · 2022Article
- Exploring the Characteristics of an Aroma-Blending Mixture by Investigating the Network of Shared Odors and the Molecular Features of Their Related Odorants.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Cortical processing of configurally perceived odor mixtures.Brain research · 2020Article
- Nasal mucus glutathione transferase activity and impact on olfactory perception and neonatal behavior.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Brain anatomy of the 4-day-old European rabbit.Journal of anatomy · 2018Article
- Odorant-odorant metabolic interaction, a novel actor in olfactory perception and behavioral responsiveness.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Differential memory persistence of odor mixture and components in newborn rabbits: competition between the whole and its parts.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2014Article
- Newborn rabbit perception of 6-odorant mixtures depends on configural processing and number of familiar elements.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Extraction of relevant information from highly complex environments is a prerequisite to survival. Within odour mixtures, such information is contained in the odours of specific elements or in the mixture configuration perceived as a whole unique odour. For instance, an AB mixture of the element A (ethyl isobutyrate) and the element B (ethyl maltol) generates a configural AB percept in humans and apparently in another species, the rabbit. Here, we examined whether the memory of such a configuration is distinct from the memory of the individual odorants. Taking advantage of the newborn rabbit's ability to learn odour mixtures, we combined behavioural and pharmacological tools to specifically eliminate elemental memory of A and B after conditioning to the AB mixture and evaluate consequences on configural memory of AB. The amnesic treatment suppressed responsiveness to A and B but not to AB. Two other experiments confirmed the specific perception and particular memory of the AB mixture. These data demonstrate the existence of configurations in certain odour mixtures and their representation as unique objects: after learning, animals form a configural memory of these mixtures, which coexists with, but is relatively dissociated from, memory of their elements. This capability emerges very early in life.
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