FSU researcher wins NIH grant to study a hidden part of our sense of smell

A Florida State University researcher has received a five-year, $1.86 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how a little-understood part of the brain affects our sense of smell.  

Assistant Professor of Psychology Adam Dewan will lead a study of the dorsal tenia tecta, a brain region that receives input from the olfactory bulb but has no known function. Dewan’s team will investigate this region to find out how it’s connected to other parts of the brain, how neurons within this region respond to odor and its overall contribution to our sense of smell.