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VetBooks.ir impaired, despite the olfactory apparatus pre- changing olfactory conditions and pressures
where the importance and relevance of spe-
sumably remaining intact (Koss et al. 1988). In
animals, including humans, the olfactory sys-
responses to them, such plasticity is essential.
tem is a flexible processing network that is cific odours varies along with the appropriate
shaped and honed by learning. In a world of

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