Spatial perception: time tells where a smell comes from.
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.
Arzi
Anat
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Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Israel.
Sobel
Noam
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D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009812:Odorants; D012903:Smell; D013028:Space Perception; D013996:Time and Motion Studies