The nose knows

[CptKipling]

Related to recent

discussion in another thread, I found some articles related to olfaction sensing and processing.



http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~borp/ - Berkeley Olfactory

Research Project



http://brain.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/122/2

/209 (http://brain.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/full/122/2/209) - Blind smell: brain activation induced by an undetected air-borne chemical



http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v419/n6909/abs/419802a_fs.html&dynoptio

ns=doi1090601509 (http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v419/n6909/abs/419802a_fs.html&dynoptions=do

i1090601509) - Olfactory plasticity: One nostril knows what the other learns (possibly mentioned before)



http://www.pma.caltech.edu/~physcoll/Sobel.html

and
http://www.applesforhealth.com/scentnose1.html-

The World Smells Different to each nostril



[url="http://biorobots.cwru.edu/neuromechanics/Kauer3.pdf"]http://biorobots.cwru.edu/neuromechanics/Kauer3.pdf[/ur

l]

[DrSmellThis]

Fantastic! Thanks, Kip. A

first rate post, me lad!

BTW, the second article is consistent with the idea by nonscents and myself that the

VNO might be involved in non-pheomonal olfaction.