title: Spatial perception: time tells where a smell comes from.
abstract: A new study has found that when a shark turns towards an odor, its directional decision is based on inter-nostril differences in odorant time of arrival, rather than on inter-nostril differences in odorant concentration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Israel.
authors.forename: Anat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arzi
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sobel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009812:Odorants; D012903:Smell; D013028:Space Perception; D013996:Time and Motion Studies