title: Analysis and synthesis in olfaction.
abstract: Natural environments contain numerous volatile compounds emanating from a large number of sources, and the survival of many animals depends on their ability to segregate odors of interest within complex odorous scenes. In a recent paper, we described how the ability of mice to detect odors within mixtures depends on the chemical structure and neural representation of the target and background odorants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rokni
authors.forename: Venkatesh N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Murthy
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D009812:Odorants; D009830:Olfactory Bulb / Q000502:physiology*; D055696:Olfactory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D018034:Olfactory Receptor Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*