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NEURON
Volume 47, Issue 4, Pages 581-592Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2005.06.028
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC006915-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Forty years ago, von Bekesy demonstrated that the spatial source of an odorant is determined by comparing input across nostrils, but it is unknown how this comparison is effected in the brain. To address this, we delivered odorants to the left or right of the nose, and contrasted olfactory left versus right localization with olfactory identification during brain imaging. We found nostril-specific responses in primary olfactory cortex that were predictive of the accuracy of left versus right localization, thus providing a neural substrate for the behavior described by von Bdkdsy. Additionally, left versus right localization preferentially engaged a portion of the superior temporal gyrus previously implicated in visual and auditory localization, suggesting that localization information extracted from smell was then processed in a convergent brain system for spatial representation of multisensory inputs.
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