Scientists identify the brain circuits with which newly hatched nematodes form and retrieve a lifelong aversive olfactory memory. A classic example of imprinting is how geese form attachments to the ...
And the olfactory system has the striking ability to elicit powerful emotions, feelings, and memories, thereby impacting quality of life. These qualities, and our resulting, inherent attraction to ...
PhD (2012 to present; with Dr. Heather Schellink): Olfactory learning and memory in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. Funded by Dalhousie University Graduate Scholarship. MSc (2010 - 2012; with Dr.
the researchers even found emerging evidence that olfactory training is associated with improved global cognition, with an especially marked impact on verbal learning and memory as well as verbal ...