Despite a large array of individual sensors, the resolving power of these devices can still be improved to identify a target at a very low concentration out of a mixture of odors, if different types of transductions are employed in concert as a set of sensing responses to distinguish one odor from another.
Please give alternate explanations such as an "oligo" mixture of odors full consideration.
Furthermore, we will suppose that a mixture of odors gets mapped into the sum vector of all the components, normalized again to unit length.
It emits a complex mixture of odors and semiochemicals, and in addition to the main and accessory olfactory systems, it also stimulates the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems.
Stimuli were a mixture of odors (citronella, citralva, -carvone, carvone, menthone, geraniol, eugenol, acetophenone, benzyl alcohol, benzaldeheyde, propionic acid, heptanoic acid, IBMP) or a mixture containing both R- and S-carvone enantiomers.
It is not likely that the full complexity of the social stimulus may be mimicked by the use of any artificial mixture of odors, hence the possibility that the arousal state results from the complexity of the stimulus cannot be excluded.
As I climbed narrow stairs, I smelled a mixture of moldy odor and makeup smell.
A far more difficult problem than the above example is discrimination of the individual odors in a mixture of odorants.
The fuzzy logic of RANCs also discriminates individual odors in a mixture of odorants, even odorants that activate nearly identical sets of receptor types.
Mixtures of odors get mapped into the normalized sum vector (gray).
