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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2024

Common principles for odour coding across vertebrates and invertebrates.

Kara A Fulton, David Zimmerman, Aravi Samuel, Katrin Vogt, Sandeep Robert Datta

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Convergent motifs of early olfactory processing are recapitulated by layer-wise efficient coding.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Sensory processing reformats odor coding around valence and dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  10. Simultaneous detection and estimation in olfactory sensing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  12. When noncanonical olfaction is optimal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Kara A Fulton *Department of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
David Zimmerman *Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Aravi SamuelDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1672-8720
Katrin VogtDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. katrin.vogt@uni-konstanz.de.
Sandeep Robert DattaDepartment of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. srdatta@hms.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8068-3862

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The olfactory system is an ideal and tractable system for exploring how the brain transforms sensory inputs into behaviour. The basic tasks of any olfactory system include odour detection, discrimination and categorization. The challenge for the olfactory system is to transform the high-dimensional space of olfactory stimuli into the much smaller space of perceived objects and valence that endows odours with meaning. Our current understanding of how neural circuits address this challenge has come primarily from observations of the mechanisms of the brain for processing other sensory modalities, such as vision and hearing, in which optimized deep hierarchical circuits are used to extract sensory features that vary along continuous physical dimensions. The olfactory system, by contrast, contends with an ill-defined, high-dimensional stimulus space and discrete stimuli using a circuit architecture that is shallow and parallelized. Here, we present recent observations in vertebrate and invertebrate systems that relate the statistical structure and state-dependent modulation of olfactory codes to mechanisms of perception and odour-guided behaviour.

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InvertebratesOdorantsOlfactory PathwaysSmellVertebratesAnimalsHumansOlfactory Perception

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