Olfaction the amygdala and is involved in emotional and autonomic responses to odor. It also projects to the hippocampus and is involved in motivation and memory. Odor information is stored in long-term memory and has strong connections to emotional memory. This is possibly due to the olfactory system's close anatomical ties to the limbic system and hippocampus, areas of the brain that have long been known to be involved in emotion and place memory, respectively. Since any one receptor is responsive to various odorants, and there is a great deal of convergence at the level of the olfactory bulb, it may
Intermediate-term memory phase of long-term memory, respectively—thus demonstrating the presence of a form of memory that exists between working memory and long-term memory, which they referred to as "intermediate-term memory". Though the idea of intermediate-term memory has existed since the 1990s, Sutton "et al." introduced a novel theory for the neural correlates underlying intermediate-term memory in "Aplysia" in 2001, where they described it as the primary behavioral manifestation of intermediate-term facilitation. In 2001, Sutton and colleagues proposed that intermediate-term memory possesses the following three characteristics: Because intermediate-term memory does not involve transcription, it likely involves the translation of mRNA transcripts already present