Maturation of pyramidal cells in anterior piriform cortex may be sufficient to explain the end of early olfactory learning in rats

Graphical representations of the hypothesis. Some neurons that are responsive for an artificial odor may be coincident with neurons that are responsive to the maternal odor. This could occur to a lesser extent at P14–P17 than at P5–P8 (A). One possibility is that at P14–P17, the number of maternal odor responsive neurons could be reduced before the artificial odor-stroke conditioning in relation to P5–P8 (B).