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SUBMITTER: Cleland TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1794271 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070129 6
The perceptual quality of odors usually is robust to variability in concentration. However, maps of neural activation across the olfactory bulb glomerular layer are not stable in this respect; rather, glomerular odor representations both broaden and intensify as odorant concentrations are increased. The relative levels of activation among glomeruli, in contrast, remain relatively stable across concentrations, suggesting that the representation of odor quality may rely on these relational activit ...[more]