TY - JOUR
T1 - Task dependence of odor discrimination
T2 - Choosing between speed and accuracy
AU - Brooks, Jack
AU - Nicholas, Jennifer
AU - Robertson, Jennifer J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Physiological Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Odor discrimination is a complex task that may be improved by increasing sampling time to facilitate evidence accumulation. However, experiments testing this phenomenon in olfaction have produced conflicting results. To resolve this disparity, Frederick et al. (Frederick DE, Brown A, Tacopina S, Mehta N, Vujovic M, Brim E, Amina T, Fixsen B, Kay LM. J Neurosci 37: 4416–4426, 2017) conducted experiments that suggest that sampling time and performance are task dependent. Their findings have implications for understanding olfactory processing and experimental design, specifically the effect of subtle differences in experimental design on study results.
AB - Odor discrimination is a complex task that may be improved by increasing sampling time to facilitate evidence accumulation. However, experiments testing this phenomenon in olfaction have produced conflicting results. To resolve this disparity, Frederick et al. (Frederick DE, Brown A, Tacopina S, Mehta N, Vujovic M, Brim E, Amina T, Fixsen B, Kay LM. J Neurosci 37: 4416–4426, 2017) conducted experiments that suggest that sampling time and performance are task dependent. Their findings have implications for understanding olfactory processing and experimental design, specifically the effect of subtle differences in experimental design on study results.
KW - Odor discrimination
KW - Reproducibility of results
KW - Speed-accuracy tradeoff
KW - Temporal integration
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U2 - 10.1152/jn.00522.2017
DO - 10.1152/jn.00522.2017
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-3077
VL - 119
SP - 377
EP - 379
JO - Journal of Neurophysiology
JF - Journal of Neurophysiology
IS - 2
ER -