Olfactory Computation and Adult Neurogenesis

The initial processing of olfactory information (“olfactory computation”) by the brain is performed in the olfactory bulb. Strikingly, even in adult animals the largest population of neurons in this network is undergoing persistent turnover through neurogenesis and apoptosis, i.e., through the addition of new neurons and the subsequent death of a large fraction of them. This endows the network with computational power that yet has to be fully explored.

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