AUTHOR=McKissick Olivia , Klimpert Nell , Ritt Jason T. , Fleischmann Alexander 

TITLE=Odors in space

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neural Circuits

VOLUME=18

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neural-circuits/articles/10.3389/fncir.2024.1414452

DOI=10.3389/fncir.2024.1414452

ISSN=1662-5110

ABSTRACT=<p>As an evolutionarily ancient sense, olfaction is key to learning where to find food, shelter, mates, and important landmarks in an animal’s environment. Brain circuitry linking odor and navigation appears to be a well conserved multi-region system among mammals; the anterior olfactory nucleus, piriform cortex, entorhinal cortex, and hippocampus each represent different aspects of olfactory and spatial information. We review recent advances in our understanding of the neural circuits underlying odor-place associations, highlighting key choices of behavioral task design and neural circuit manipulations for investigating learning and memory.</p>