NIH R01 · 2025
Sensory-motor strategies for odor-guided navigation
Project Summary Animals interact with the world through dynamic, iterative sensory-motor processes that guide their ongoing movement. Odor-guided navigation is the basis for fundamental natural behaviors such as finding food sources, but little is known about the nature of the sensory signals that inform adaptive changes in locomotion. Here we propose to test how spatial information is encoded by distributed activity in the olfactory bulb, and how this information is decoded by higher-order brain areas. Olfactory sampling occurs through ‘sniffs’ – discrete sensory samples thought to provide a snapshot of the current odor environment. One possibility is that animals ascend concentration…
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