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Odorants of very different chemical structure that yield the perception of very different odors have long been known to evoke distinct patterns of neural activity in the rat olfactory bulb. This observation suggested that at least one step in the coding of odor information might involve spatial patterns of bulbar activity. Until recently, however, it was not understood how different spatial patterns might arise from the differences in odorant chemical structure.
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Johnson, B.A., Leon, M. (2001). Spatial Representations of Odorant Chemistry in the Main Olfactory Bulb of the Rat. In: Marchlewska-Koj, A., Lepri, J.J., Müller-Schwarze, D. (eds) Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0671-3_11
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