Olfactory Orientation and Navigation in Humans.
Olfactory Orientation and Navigation in Humans.
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pone.0129387
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Sulloway FJ
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作者:
Jacobs LF;Arter J;Cook A;Sulloway FJ
Although predicted by theory, there is no direct evidence that an animal can define an arbitrary location in space as a coordinate location on an odor grid. Here we show that humans can do so. Using a spatial match-to-sample procedure, humans were led to a random location within a room diffused with two odors. After brief sampling and spatial disorientation, they had to return to this location. Over three conditions, participants had access to different sensory stimuli: olfactory only, visual only, and a final control condition with no olfactory, visual, or auditory stimuli. Humans located the target with higher accuracy in the olfaction-only condition than in the control condition and showed higher accuracy than chance. Thus a mechanism long proposed for the homing pigeon, the ability to define a location on a map constructed from chemical stimuli, may also be a navigational mechanism used by humans.
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影响因子:
1.7
作者:
Jacobs, LF
通讯作者:
Jacobs, LF
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
HERMER, L;SPELKE, ES
通讯作者:
SPELKE, ES
影响因子:
3
作者:
Hegarty, M;Richardson, AE;Subbiah, I
通讯作者:
Subbiah, I
影响因子:
2
作者:
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通讯作者:
Schenk, F
DOI:
10.1126/science.1249168
发表时间:
2014-03-21
期刊:
Science (New York, N.Y.)
影响因子:
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作者:
Bushdid C;Magnasco MO;Vosshall LB;Keller A
通讯作者:
Keller A