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Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind From Matter | Terrence Deacon | 95

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How to Focus Attention on Smell in Rabbits

Olfactory bulb cortex is a little bit like cerebral cortex. It's a cortex that sells in it that are organized in a sort of not columnar pattern, but basically a radial pattern. What Walter Freeman found is that when rabbits begin to focus on a particular smell, and they've learned to recognize this smell, the activity in the olfactory bulb goes from relatively chaotic to regular pattern. Each smell has a distinctive regular pattern.

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