While perceptual constancy requires the brain to maintain a stable representation of sensory input, TWiN explores a study showing that odor-evoked responses in the olfactory cortex drift over periods of days to weeks.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Jason Shepherd, Timothy Cheung, and Vivianne Morrison
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- Representational drift in olfactory cortex (Nature) (open preprint) 8:01
- Ed Yong on representational drift (Atlantic) 7:50
- Letters read on TWiN 20 1:04:38
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