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Nature Neuroscience 12, 103–104 (1 February 2009) | doi:10.1038/nn0209-103

Making scents out of how olfactory neurons are ordered in space

Nathan E Schoppa

The way our mind senses the world around us depends a lot on how neurons are organized in space. For example, in the visual system, retinal ganglion cells are ordered according to the visual field, with neighboring cells being responsive to neighboring parts of the visual field.