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ArticleBehavioral neuroscience2020

Context-dependent odor learning requires the anterior olfactory nucleus.

Max Levinson, Jacob P Kolenda, Gabriella J Alexandrou, Olga Escanilla, Thomas A Cleland, David M Smith, Christiane Linster

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Article in Behavioral neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Max LevinsonDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior.ORCID 0000-0001-8625-8181
Jacob P KolendaDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior.ORCID 0000-0003-2884-8508
Gabriella J AlexandrouDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior.ORCID 0000-0001-7330-7642
Olga EscanillaDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior.
Thomas A ClelandDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0001-7506-1201
David M SmithDepartment of Psychology.ORCID 0000-0002-5156-8099
Christiane LinsterDepartment of Neurobiology and Behavior.ORCID 0000-0003-1444-7295

Funding

Hippocampus, Retrosplenial Cortex and Contextual Learning and MemoryR01MH083809 · NIMH · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, DAVID M., WARDEN, MELISSA RHOADS · 2010 to 2022
$3.6M
Role of anterior olfactory nucleus for multi-sensory integration in the olfactory systemR01DC019124 · NIDCD · CORNELL UNIVERSITY · PI CLELAND, THOMAS A, LINSTER, CHRISTIANE · 2021 to 2025
$3.2M
Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience: National Science FoundationDefense Advanced Research Projects AgencyNIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC019124NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083809
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Learning to associate the context in which a stimulus occurs is an important aspect of animal learning. We propose that the association of an olfactory stimulus with its multisensory context is mediated by projections from ventral hippocampus (vHC) networks to the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON). Using a contextually cued olfactory discrimination task, rats were trained to associate 2 olfactory stimuli with different responses depending on visuospatial context. Temporary lesions of the AON or vHC impaired performance on this task. In contrast, such lesions did not impair performance on a noncontextual olfactory discrimination task. Moreover, vHC lesions also impaired performance on an analogous contextually cued texture discrimination task, whereas AON lesions affected only olfactory contextual associations. We describe a distinct role for the AON in olfactory processing and conclude that early olfactory networks such as the olfactory bulb and AON function as multimodal integration networks rather than processing olfactory signals exclusively. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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AnimalsBrainCerebral CortexCuesDiscrimination LearningHippocampusLearningMaleOdorantsOlfactory BulbOlfactory CortexOlfactory PathwaysOlfactory PerceptionRatsRats, Long-EvansSmell

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PMID32378908
PMCPMC8710084
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