Rats Smell in Stereo Export

@article{citeulike:493676, abstract = {It has been hypothesized that rats and other mammals can use stereo cues to localize odor sources, but there is limited behavioral evidence to support this hypothesis. We found that rats trained on an odor-localization task can localize odors accurately in one or two sniffs. Bilateral sampling was essential for accurate odor localization, with internasal intensity and timing differences as directional cues. If the stimulus arrived at the correct point of the respiration cycle, internasal timing differences as short as 50 milliseconds sufficed. Neuronal recordings show that bulbar neurons responded differentially to stimuli from the left and stimuli from the right. 10.1126/science.1122096}, author = {Rajan, Raghav and Clement, James P. and Bhalla, Upinder S.}, citeulike-article-id = {493676}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1122096}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/sci;311/5761/666.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/sci;311/5761/666.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/311/5761/666}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16456082}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16456082}, day = {3}, doi = {10.1126/science.1122096}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {coding, localization, olfaction, spatial}, month = {February}, number = {5761}, pages = {666--670}, posted-at = {2009-11-04 17:20:26}, priority = {0}, title = {Rats Smell in Stereo}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1122096}, volume = {311}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:493676 L3 - citeulike-article-id:493676 N2 - It has been hypothesized that rats and other mammals can use stereo cues to localize odor sources, but there is limited behavioral evidence to support this hypothesis. We found that rats trained on an odor-localization task can localize odors accurately in one or two sniffs. Bilateral sampling was essential for accurate odor localization, with internasal intensity and timing differences as directional cues. If the stimulus arrived at the correct point of the respiration cycle, internasal timing differences as short as 50 milliseconds sufficed. Neuronal recordings show that bulbar neurons responded differentially to stimuli from the left and stimuli from the right. 10.1126/science.1122096 IS - 5761 JF - Science EP - 670 TI - Rats Smell in Stereo VL - 311 SP - 666 KW - coding KW - localization KW - olfaction KW - spatial AU - Rajan, Raghav AU - Clement, James AU - Bhalla, Upinder PY - 2006/02/03/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1122096 ER -