{"id":182180,"date":"2024-02-06T22:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/odors-may-prompt-certain-brain-cells-to-make-decisions"},"modified":"2024-02-06T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:24:13","slug":"odors-may-prompt-certain-brain-cells-to-make-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/odors-may-prompt-certain-brain-cells-to-make-decisions","title":{"rendered":"Odors may prompt certain brain cells to make decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/odors-may-prompt-certain-brain-cells-to-make-decisions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that odors stimulate specific brain cells that may play a role in rapid \u201cgo\/no-go\u201d decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0960982224000216?via%3Dihub\">study<\/a> was published online Tuesday (Feb. 6) in the journal Current Biology.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists focused on the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/hippocampus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hippocampus<\/a>, an area of the brain crucial to memory and learning. They knew that so-called \u201ctime <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>\u201d played a major role in hippocampal function, but didn\u2019t know their role in associative learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered that odors stimulate specific brain cells that may play a role in rapid \u201cgo\/no-go\u201d decision-making. The study was published online Tuesday (Feb. 6) in the journal Current Biology. The scientists focused on the hippocampus, an area of the brain crucial to memory and learning. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}