01:830:331 Lecture 37: lecture 37

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:331
• Professor: West

Document Summary

~as humans we don"t really need it to survive. ~sinus canal bones carry air up to olfactory mucosa (top of nasal cavity) ~odors stick to cilia of receptors and make action potentials. ~in the olfactory bulb, in brain, they synapse with mitral cells. Each glomerulus gets input from 2,000 receptor cells. ~a receptor cell in the nasal cavity only lives for 60 days. ~the different mitral cells are activated by different chemical smells. ~when neurogenesis happens, the new cells is able to reform the same synaptic contact. Then can go to either piriform cortex or entorhinal cortex.