This paper presents a valuable theory and analysis of the role of neurogenesis and inhibitory plasticity in the drift of neural representations in the olfactory system. For one of the findings, ...

Some people may be able to smell even without key structures that relay odor information from the nose to the brain. “I’m not sure that our textbook view of how the [olfactory] system works is right,” ...

A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs. Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory bulbs, which are said to encode our sense of smell, ...