Publications

Commentary on our work

  1. Lapid H, Shushan S, Plotkin A, Voet H, Roth Y, Hummel T, Schneidman E, Sobel N. (2011) Neural activity at the human olfactory epithelium reflects olfactory perception. Nature Neuroscince. 14(11):1455-61.

  2. Arzi A, Sobel N. (2011) Olfactory perception as a compass for olfactory neural maps. Trends in Cognitive Science. 15(11):537-45.

  3. Weiss T, Sobel N. (2011) What's primary about primary olfactory cortex? Nature Neuroscience. 15(1):10-2.

  4. Resnik J, Sobel N, Paz R. (2011) Auditory aversive learning increases discrimination thresholds. Nature Neuroscience. May 8. 14(6):791-6

  5. Gelstein S, Yeshurun Y, Rozenkrantz L, Shushan S, Frumin I, Roth Y, Sobel N. (2011) Human tears contain a chemosignal. Science. 331(6014):226-30.

  6. Plotkin A, Sela L, Weissbrod A, Kahana R, Haviv L, Yeshurun Y, Soroker N, Sobel N. (2010) Sniffing enables communication and environmental control for the severely disabled. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 10;107(32):14413-8.

  7. Anat Arzi, Noam Sobel. (2010) Spatial Perception: Time Tells Where a Smell Comes From. Current Biology. 13;20(13):R563-R564.

  8. Sela L, Sobel N. (2010). Human olfaction: a constant state of change-blindness. Experimental Brain Research 205(1):13-29.

  9. Haddad R, Weiss T, Khan R, Nadler B, Mandairon N, Bensafi M, Schneidman E, Sobel N. (2010). Global features of neural activity in the olfactory system form a parallel code that predicts olfactory behavior and perception. Journal of Neuroscience 30(27):9017-26.

  10. Haddad R, Medhanie A, Roth Y, Harel D, Sobel N. (2010). Predicting odor pleasantness with an electronic nose. PLoS Computational Biology 6(4):e1000740.

  11. Yaara Yeshurun and Noam Sobel (2010). Multisensory integration: an inner tongue puts an outer nose in context. Nature Neuroscience 13(2) 148-149.

  12. Yaara Yeshurun and Noam Sobel (2009). An Odor is Not Worth a Thousand Words: From Multidimensional Odors to Unidimensional Odor Objects. Annual Review of Psychology. 2010;61:219-41.

  13. Arzi A, Sela L, Green A, Givaty G, Dagan Y, Sobel N (2009). The Influence of Odorants on Respiratory Patterns in Sleep. Chemical Senses 35(1):31-40.

  14. Yeshurun Y, Lapid H, Dudai Y, Sobel N (2009). The Privileged Brain Representation of First Olfactory Associations. Current Biology. 2009 Nov 4. 19(21):1869-74.

  15. Sela L, Sacher Y, Serfaty C, Yeshurun Y, Soroker N, Sobel N. (2009). Spared and impaired olfactory abilities after thalamic lesions. Journal of Neuroscience. 2009 29(39) 12059-69.

  16. Lapid H, Seo HS, Schuster B, Schneidman E, Roth Y, Harel D, Sobel N, Hummel T. (2009). Odorant Concentration Dependence in Electro-Olfactograms Recorded from the Human Olfactory Epithelium. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2009 Aug 5. 102(4):2121-30

  17. Christina Zelano, Jessica Montag, Rehan Khan, Noam Sobel (2009). A specialized odor memory buffer in primary olfactory cortex. PLoS One, 4(3) e4965

  18. Haddad R, Lapid H, Harel D, Sobel N. (2008). Measuring Smells. Curr Opin Neurobiol. Oct 3. 18(4):438-44.

  19. Yeshurun Y, Dudai Y, Sobel N. (2008). Working memory across nostrils. Behav Neurosci. 122(5):1031-7.

  20. Lapid H, Harel D, Sobel N. (2008) Prediction Models for the Pleasantness of Binary Mixtures in Olfaction. Chem Senses Sep;33(7): 599-609

  21. Haddad R, Khan R, Takahashi YK, Mori K, Harel D, Sobel N. (2008) A metric for odorant comparison. Nature Methods. May;5(5):425-9.

  22. Haddad R, Carmel L, Sobel N, Harel D. (2008). Predicting the receptive range of olfactory receptors. PLoS Comput Biol. Feb;4(2):e18.

  23. Bensafi M, Sobel N, Khan RM. Hedonic-specific activity in piriform cortex during odor imagery mimics that during odor perception. J Neurophysiol. 2007 Oct 3; Dec;98(6):3254-62

  24. Spors H, Sobel N. (2007) Male behavior by knockout. Neuron. 55(5):689-93.

  25. Khan RM, Luk CH, Flinker A, Aggarwal A, Lapid H, Haddad R, Sobel N. (2007) Predicting odor pleasantness from odorant structure: pleasantness as a reflection of the physical world. J Neurosci. 27(37):10015-23.

  26. Wyart, C., Webster, W.W., Chen, J.H., Wilson, S.R., McClary, A., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2007). Smelling a single component of male sweat alterslLevels of cortisol in women. J. Neuroscience 27 (6): 1261-1265.

  27. Zelano, C.M., Montag, J., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2007). Dissociated representations of irritation and valence in human primary olfactory cortex. Neurophysiology. 97(3):1969-76.

  28. Porter, J., Craven, B., Khan, R.M., Chang, S.J., Kang, I., Judkewitz, B., Volpe, J., Settles, G., & Sobel, N. (2007). Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans. Nature Neuroscience 10 (1): 27-29.

  29. Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2007). How the nose knows what it knows. Nature Neuroscience 10 (1): 7.

  30. Johnson, B.N., & Sobel, N. (2006). Methods for building an olfactometer with known concentration outcomes. J Neuroscience Methods. 160(2):231-45.

  31. Johnson, B.N., Russell, C., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2006). A comparison of methods for sniff measurement concurrent with olfactory tasks in humans. Chemical Senses 31 (9): 795-806.

  32. Mainland, J.D., & Sobel, N. (2006). The sniff is part of the olfactory percept. Chemical Senses 31 (2): 181-196.

  33. Zelano, C.M., & Sobel, N. (2005). Humans as an animal model for systems-level organization of olfaction. Neuron 48 (3): 431-454.

  34. Porter, J., Anand, T., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2005). Brain mechanisms for extracting spatial information from smell. Neuron 47 (4): 581-592.

  35. Bensafi, M., Pouliot, S., & Sobel, N. (2005). Odorant-specific patterns of sniffing during imagery distinguish "bad" and "good" olfactory imagers. Chemical Senses 30 (6): 521-529.

  36. Mainland, J.D., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., Ivry, R.B., & Sobel, N. (2005). Olfactory impairments in patients with unilateral cerebellar lesions are selective to inputs from the contralesional nostril. Journal of Neuroscience 25 (27): 6362-6371.

  37. Zelano, C., Bensafi, M., Porter, J., Mainland, J.D., Johnson, B.N., Bremner, E.A., Telles, C., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2005). Attentional modulation in human primary olfactory cortex. Nature Neuroscience 8 (1): 114-120.

  38. Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2004). Neural processing at the speed of smell. Neuron 44 (5): 744-747.

  39. Bensafi, M., Tsutsui, T., Khan, R.M., Levenson, R.W., & Sobel N. (2004). Sniffing a human sex-steroid derived compound affects mood and autonomic arousal in a dose-dependent manner. Psychoneuroendocrinology 29 (10): 1290-1299.

  40. Bensafi, M., Brown, W.M., Khan, R.M., Levenson, R.W., & Sobel, N. (2003). Sniffing human sex-steroid derived compounds modulates mood, memory and autonomic nervous system function in specific behavioral contexts. Behavioral Brain Research 152 (1): 11-22.

  41. Bensafi, M., Brown, W.M., Tsutsui, T., Mainland, J.D., Johnson, B.N., Bremner, E.A., Young, N., Mauss, I., Ray, B., Gross, J., Richards, J., Stappen, I., Levenson, R.W., Khan, R., & Sobel, N. (2003). Sex-steroid derived compounds induce sex-specific effects on autonomic nervous system function in humans. Behavioral Neuroscience 117 (6): 1125-1134.

  42. Bensafi, M., Porter, J., Pouliot, S., Mainland, J.D., Johnson, B.N., Zelano, C., Young, N., Bremner, E.A., Aframian, D., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2003). Olfactomotor activity during imagery mimics that during perception. Nature Neuroscience 6 (11): 1142-1144.

  43. Anderson, A.K., Sobel, N. (2003). Dissociating intensity from valence as sensory inputs to emotion. Neuron 39 (4): 581-583.

  44. Bremner, E.A., Mainland, J.D., Khan, R.M., & Sobel, N. (2003). The prevalence of androstenone anosmia. Chemical Senses 28 (5): 423-432.

  45. Johnson, B.N., Mainland, J.D., & Sobel, N. (2003). Rapid olfactory processing implicates subcortical control of an olfactomotor system. J. Neurophysiology 90 (2): 1084-1094.

  46. Anderson, A.K., Christoff, K., Stappen, I., Panitz, D., Ghahremani, D.G., Glover, G.H., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Sobel, N. (2003). Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction. Nature Neuroscience 6 (2): 196-202.

  47. Mainland, J.D., Bremner, E.A., Young, N., Johnson, B.N., Khan, R.M., Bensafi, M., & Sobel, N. (2002). Olfactory plasticity: One nostril knows what the other learns. Nature 419 (6909): 802.

  48. Sobel, N., Brown, W.M. (2001). The scented brain: pheromonal responses in humans. Neuron 31 (4): 512-514.

  49. Sobel, N., Thomason, M.E., Stappen, I., Tanner, C.M., Tetrud, J.W., Bower, J.M., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2001). An impairment in sniffing contributes to the olfactory deficit in Parkinson's disease. PNAS 98 (7): 4154-4159.

  50. Sobel, N., Khan, R.M., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2000). The world smells different to each nostril. Nature 402 (6757): 35.

  51. Sobel, N., Prabhakaran, V., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2000). Time-course of odorant-induced activation in the primary olfactory cortex of the Human. J. Neurophysiology 83 (1): 537-551.

  52. Sobel, N., Khan, R.M., Hartley, C.A., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (2000). Sniffing longer rather than stronger to maintain olfactory detection threshold. Chemical Senses 25 (1): 1-8.

  53. Sobel, N., Prabhakaran, V., Hartley, C.A., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G.H., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (1999). Blind smell: brain activation induced by an undetected airborne chemical. Brain 122 (2): 209-217.

  54. Sobel, N., Prabhakaran, V., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G.H., Gabrieli, J.D.E., & Sullivan, E.V. (1998). Odorant-induced and sniff-induced activation in the cerebellum of the human. J. Neuroscience 18 (21): 8990-9001.

  55. Sobel, N., Prabhakaran, V., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G.H., Sullivan, E.V., Goode, R.L., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (1998). Sniffing and smelling: separate subsystems in the human olfactory cortex. Nature 392 (6673): 282-286.

  56. Sobel, N., Prabhakaran, V., Desmond, J.E., Glover, G.H., Sullivan, E.V., & Gabrieli, J.D.E. (1997). A method for functional magnetic resonance imaging of olfaction. J. Neuroscience Methods 78 (1-2): 115-123.