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Science 20 March 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3612, pp. 1336 - 1337
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3612.1336
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Olfactory Discrimination: Electrophysiological Spatiotemporal Basis

Maxwell Mark Mozell 1

1 Physiology Department, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse

Simultaneous recordings were taken from two widely separated branches of the olfactory nerve of the frog. Odors from a variety of chemical substances were blown into the nares, and each elicited a different response magnitude ratio between the two branches. In addition, the time lapse between the two nerve responses differed for different chemicals. This suggests a time-space encoding of the mucosal response to odors.


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