Recent Publications (2010 - Present)
Publications in the 2000s
Brea, J., Kay, L.M., & Kopell, N. (2009). Biophysical model for gamma rhythms in the olfactory bulb via subthreshold oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(51), 21954-21959. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0910964106. PubMed PMID: 19996171. PMCID: PMC2799880.
Prendergast, B.J., Galang, J., Kay, L.M., & Pyter, L.M. (2009). Influence of the olfactory bulbs on blood leukocytes and behavioral responses to infection in Siberian hamsters. Brain Research, 1268, 48-57. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.01.025. PubMed PMID: 19368847. PMCID: PMC3749255.
Kay, L.M., Beshel, J., Brea, J., Martin, C., Rojas-Líbano, D. & Kopell, N. (2009) Olfactory oscillations: the what, how and what for. Trends in Neurosciences, 32(4), 207-214. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2008.11.008.
Frederick, D.E., Barlas, L., Ievins, A., & Kay, L.M. (2009). A critical test of the overlap hypothesis for odor mixture perception. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123(2), 430-437. doi: 10.1037/a0014729. PubMed PMID: 19331465.
Prendergast, B.J., Pyter, L.M., Galang, J., & Kay, L.M. (2008). Reproductive responses to photoperiod persist in olfactory bulbectomized Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus). Behavioural Brain Research, 198(1), 159-164. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.032. PubMed PMID: 19027041. PMCID: PMC2661624.
Rojas-Líbano, D., & Kay, L.M. (2008). Olfactory system gamma oscillations: the physiological dissection of a cognitive neural system. Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2(3), 179-194. doi: 10.1007/s11571-008-9053-1. PubMed PMID: 19003484. PMCID: PMC2518753.
Grossman, K.J., Mallik, A.K., Ross, J., Kay, L.M., & Issa, N.P. (2008). Glomerular activation patterns and the perception of odor mixtures. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27(10), 2676-2685. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06213.x. PubMed PMID: 18445053.
Prendergast, B.J., & Kay, L.M. (2008). Affective and adrenocorticotrophic responses to photoperiod in Wistar rats. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 20(2), 261-267. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2007.01633.x. PubMed PMID: 18047552.
Kay, L.M. (2008). Olfactory information. In M.D. Binder, N. Hirokawa, U. Windhorst, & M.C. Hirsch (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. New York, NY: Springer Reference.
Kay, L.M. (2008). Dynamical architecture of the mammalian olfactory system. In M. Marinaro, S. Scarpetta & Y. Yamaguchi (Eds.), Dynamic Brain LNCS 5286 (pp. 67-90). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Martin, C., Beshel, J., & Kay, L.M. (2007). An olfacto-hippocampal network is dynamically involved in odor discrimination learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4), 2196-2205. doi: 10.1152/jn.00524.2007. PubMed PMID: 17699692.
Beshel, J., Kopell, N., & Kay, L.M. (2007). Olfactory bulb gamma oscillations are enhanced with task demands. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(31), 8358-8365. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1199-07.2007. PubMed PMID: 17670982.
Prendergast, B.J., Kampf-Lassin, A., Yee, J.R., Galang, J., McMaster, N., & Kay, L.M. (2007). Winter day lengths enhance T lymphocyte phenotypes, inhibit cytokine responses, and attenuate behavioral symptoms of infection in laboratory rats. Brain, Behavior and Immunity, 21(8), 1096-1108. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2007.05.004. PubMed PMID: 17728099. PMCID: PMC2693110.
Lowry, C.A., & Kay, L.M. (2007). Chemical factors determine olfactory system beta oscillations in waking rats. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(1), 394-404. doi: 10.1152/jn.00124.2007. PubMed PMID: 17442770.
Ables, E.M., Kay, L.M., & Mateo, J.M. (2007). Rats assess degree of relatedness from human odors. Physiology & Behavior, 90(5), 726-732. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.12.012. PubMed PMID: 17261318.
Kay, L.M., & Sherman, S.M. (2006). Argument for an olfactory thalamus. Trends in Neurosciences, 30(2), 47-53. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2006.11.007. PubMed PMID: 17161473.
Kay, L.M., Beshel, J., & Martin, C. (2006). When good enough is best. Neuron, 51(3):277-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.08.004. PubMed PMID: 16880120.
Kay, L.M., & Stopfer, M. (2006). Information processing in the olfactory systems of insects and vertebrates. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 17(4), 433-42. doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2006.04.012. PubMed PMID: 16766212.
Kay, L.M., Krysiak, M., Barlas, L., & Edgerton, G.B. (2006). Grading odor similarities in a go/no-go task. Physiology and Behavior, 88(4-5), 339-346. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.04.007. PubMed PMID: 16730757.
Kay, L.M. (2005). Theta oscillations and sensorimotor performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102(10), 3863-3868. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407920102. PubMed PMID: 15738424. PMCID: PMC553293.
Kay, L.M., Crk, T., & Thorngate, J. (2005). A redefinition of odor mixture quality. Behavioral Neuroscience 119(3), 726-733. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.3.726. PubMed PMID: 15998193.
Kay, L.M. (2004). Two minds about odors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(51), 17569-17570. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408190101. PubMed PMID: 15601763. PMCID: PMC539756.
Kay, L.M., Lowry, C.A., & Jacobs, H.A. (2003). Receptor contributions to configural and elemental odor mixture perception. Behavioral Neuroscience, 117(5), 1108-1114. doi: 10.1037/0735-7044.117.5.1108. PubMed PMID: 14570560.
Kay, L.M. (2003). Two species of gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb: dependence on behavioral state and synaptic interactions. Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2(1), 31-44. doi: 10.1142/S0219635203000196. PubMed PMID: 15011275.
Kay, L.M. (2003). A challenge to chaotic itinerancy from brain dynamics. Chaos, 13(3), 1057-1066. doi: 10.1063/1.1596071. PubMed PMID: 12946199.
Kay, L.M. (2001). Chaotic itinerancy: insufficient perceptual evidence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 793-847. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X01320095.
Nusser, Z., Kay, L.M., Laurent, G., Homanics, G.E., & Mody, I. (2001). Disruption of GABA(A) receptors on GABAergic interneurons leads to increased synchrony of the olfactory bulb network. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86(6), 2823-2833. PubMed PMID: 11731539.
Publications in the 1990s
Kay, L.M., Lancaster, L.R., & Freeman, W.J. (1996). Reafference and attractors in the olfactory system during odor recognition. International Journal of Neural Systems, 7(4), 489-495. doi: 10.1142/S0129065796000476. PubMed PMID: 8968840.
Kay, L., Freeman, W.J., & Lancaster, L. (1996). Limbic markers during olfactory perception. In I. Gath and G. Inbar (Eds.), Advances in Processing and Pattern Analysis of Biological Signals (pp. 71-84). New York, NY: Plenum.
Kay, L., Shimoide, K., & Freeman, W.J. (1995). Comparison of EEG time series from rat olfactory system with model composed of nonlinear coupled oscillators. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 5(3), 849-858. doi: 10.1142/S0218127495000636.
Barczys, C., Bloom, L., & Kay, L. (1993). Applying genetic algorithms to improve EEG classification and explore GA parametrization. In L. Nadel & D. Stein (Eds.), Lectures in Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol. V. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley.