Welcome to Group 14's Web Page!
Imagine you have just walked into a sweet smelling pastry shop. As the delicious sugary sweet smell enters your nostrils, your mouth begins to water. Your stomach begins to moan and you realize that you want to eat that delicious pastry. Have you ever wondered why these things occur? Have you ever wondered how your brain actually knows what it is smelling and doesn't just clump different scents into one single smell? Wouldn't it be awful if all you could smell was a mixture of the world around you? In this simple tutorial, we will show you how researchers are now solving the mysteries of scent.
This is a student written and created site.
The materials appearing here have been studied and interpretted by a group of college students in an Honors Biology 181 class at the University of Arizona. The work is based on the papers "Putting odor maps in sync" and "Local inhibition modulates odor-evoked synchronization of glomerulous-specific output neurons." This website has been created to simplify these biologically significant scientific papers to facilitate understanding.
