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What's primary about primary olfactory cortex?

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Learned odor discrimination and generalization are reflected in patterns of ensemble activity in anterior piriform cortex, where learned discrimination between two odors reduces the correlation between their induced patterns.

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Figure 1: Odor object learning reflected in anterior piriform cortex.

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  1. Tali Weiss and Noam Sobel are in the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,

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