Tag: Olfaction

  • Nation & World

    Teaching computers to identify odors

    Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers were able to “train” a computer to recognize the neural patterns associated with various scents, and identify whether specific odors were present in a mix of smells.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sense of scents

    A new study sheds light on the extent to which animals can make distinctions among scents.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Something doesn’t smell right

    Harvard scientists say they’re closer to unraveling one of the most basic questions in neuroscience — how the brain encodes likes and dislikes — with the discovery of the first receptors in any species evolved to detect cadaverine and putrescine, two of the chemical byproducts responsible for the distinctive — and to most creatures repulsive…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Smelling the light

    Harvard neurobiologists have created mice that can “smell” light, providing a new tool that could help researchers better understand complex perception systems that do not lend themselves to easy study with traditional methods.

    3 minutes