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Jan 4 2022 – The Neuroscience of Following your Nose

Keck Professor Gautam Agarwal’s Nature article reveals how part of the brain draws on sense of smell to create spatial maps

Claremont, Calif. (January 4, 2022)—Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gautam Agarwal seeks to make sense of complex interrelationships in the brain. His latest article, “Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation,” sheds new light on an under-explored region of the brain and its role in odor-guided navigation. Co-authored with Cindy Poo, Niccolò Bonacchi, and Zachary Mainen of the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Portugal, the article was recently published in the scientific journal Nature.

Read more…https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2022/01/04/the-neuroscience-of-following-your-nose/