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SUBMITTER: Meister M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4491593 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
There is great interest in understanding human olfactory experience from a principled and quantitative standpoint. The comparison is often made to color vision, where a solid framework with a three-dimensional perceptual space enabled a rigorous search for the underlying neural pathways, and the technological development of lifelike color display devices. A recent, highly publicized report claims that humans can discriminate at least 1 trillion odors, which exceeds by many orders of magnitude th ...[more]