Dan Rokni

The paper identifies the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract (NLOT) as critical for odor-aversion learning but not for other odor-guided behaviors or fear conditioning.

This study characterizes the synaptic connectivity and electrophysiological properties of the nucleus of the lateral olfactory tract (NLOT) in mice, revealing its role in integrating olfactory and amygdalar inputs to assign emotional value to odors.

This study shows that olfactory function can be preserved in mice with severe olfactory bulb degeneration due to altered circuitry compensating for lost structures.

The paper investigates how background odors affect odor detection speed and accuracy in mice, finding that background odors add noise to decision-making, reducing accuracy while increasing speed.

This study investigates how the piriform cortex represents and segments odor mixtures, finding that normalization models explain responses and that individual components can be identified from population activity.