Prasanna Karunanayaka1, Xin Zhang2, Michael Tobia1, Jianli Wang1, Bin Zhang2, Bin Zhu 2, and Qing Yang1
1Radiology, Penn State University, Hershey, PA, United States, 2The affiliated Drum Tower hospital of Nanjing university medical school, Nanjing, China, People's Republic of
Behavioral studies show that human odor perception is
highly dynamic, incorporates both spatial and temporal codes, and is easily
influenced by information from other sensory systems such as vision. However,
the neural representation of odor perception and its dynamic processing by the
brain is poorly understood. In this research, using olfactory task fMRI,
we attempt to unravel how olfactory-related neural networks interact in both
space and time in order to explore how the olfactory and the visual systems integrate information at the central or perceptual levels in the
human brain.
