olfactory adaptation

Why Are Olfactory Sensations Long Lasting?

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Why Are Olfactory Sensations Long Lasting? Olfactory sensations are long lasting and important to memories because the sensory information reaches the cerebral cortex by the hypothalamus and the limbic system without first being filtered through the thalamus. Why is the olfactory system unique? The olfactory system is thus unique among the sensory systems in that

Where Does Sensory Adaptation Occur In The Brain?

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Where Does Sensory Adaptation Occur In The Brain? Current research shows that although adaptation occurs at multiple stages of each sensory pathway, it is often stronger and more stimulus specific at “cortical” level rather than “subcortical stages”. In short, neural adaptation is thought to happen at a more central level at the cortex. Where does