title: That's your left foot and...
abstract: Olfaction involves pattern recognition processes: in the olfactory bulb each odor is represented as a specific spatial activity pattern, serving as the basis for downstream spatiotemporal encoding and odor perception. The principle of pattern generation, the general properties of the patterns and new evidence regarding the functions of the patterns are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. fuqianxu@hotmail.com
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000502:physiology*; D018035:Receptors, Odorant / Q000502:physiology*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D018035:Receptors, Odorant