Papers & Book Chapters

• Maheshwar, K.V., Stuart, A.E. and Kay, L.M. (2025) Sex differences in olfactory sampling behavior and olfactory bulb oscillations in Long Evans Rats, Journal of Neurophysiology, 133(1):257-267.
• Li, H., Lee, C. and Kay, L.M. (2023) Testing effects of trigeminal stimulation on binary odor mixture quality in rats. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17.
• Kay, L.M. (2022) COVID-19 and olfactory dysfunction: a looming wave of dementia? Journal of Neurophysiology, 128(2): 436-444.  Podcast
• Riggle JP, Kay LM, Onishi KG, Falk DT, Smarr BL, Zucker I, Prendergast BJ. (2022) Modified wavelet analyses permit quantification of dynamic interactions between ultradian and circadian rhythms. Journal of Biological Rhythms. 37(6):631-654.
• Kudithipudi, D., Aguilar-Simon, M., Babb, J., Bazhenov, M., Blackiston, D., Bongard, J., Brna, A. P., Chakravarthi Raja, S., Cheney, N., Clune, J., Daram, A., Fusi, S., Helfer, P., Kay, L., Ketz, N., Kira, Z., Kolouri, S., Krichmar, J. L., Kriegman, S., … Siegelmann, H. (2022). Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(3), 196–210.
• Sheriff, A., Pandolfi, G., Nguyen, V., and Kay, L.M. (2021) Long-range respiratory and theta oscillation networks depend on spatial sensory context. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(48): 9957–9970.
• Iravani, B., Arshamian, A., Lundqvist, M., Kay, L.M., Wilson, D.A., Lundström, J.N. (2021) Odor identity can be extracted from the reciprocal connectivity between olfactory bulb and piriform cortex in humans. NeuroImage, 237: 118130.
• He, R., Dukes, T.C. and Kay, L.M. (2020) Transfer of odor perception from the retronasal to the orthonasal pathway, Chemical Senses, 46, bjaa074.
• Heck, D.H., Kozma, R. and Kay, L.M. (2019) The rhythm of memory: how breathing shapes memory function. Journal of Neurophysiology, 122(2): 563-571.
• Osinski, B., Kim, A., Xiao, W., Mehta, N.M., and Kay, L.M. (2018) Pharmacological manipulation of the olfactory bulb granule cell modulates beta oscillations: testing model predictions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(3): 1090-1106.
• Frederick, D.E., Tacopina, S.A., Vujovic, M., Brown, A., Mehta, N., and Kay, L.M. (2017) Task-dependent behavioral dynamics make the case for temporal integration in multiple strategies during odor processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(16):4416-4426.
• Katz, D.B. and Kay, L.M. (2016) Editorial overview: Systems neuroscience 2016. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 40: iv-vi.
• Frederick, D.E., Vujovic, M., Brown, A., Mehta, N., and Kay, L.M. (2016) Gamma and beta oscillations define a sequence of neurocognitive modes present in odor processing, Journal of Neuroscience, 36(29): 7750-7767.
• Osinski, B and Kay, L.M. (2016) Granule cell excitability mediates gamma and beta oscillations in a model of the dendrodendritic microcircuit. Journal of Neurophysiology, 116(2): 522-539.
• Corcoran, K.A., Frick, B.J., Radulovic, J., Kay, L.M. (2016) Analysis of coherent activity between retrosplenial cortex, hippocampus, thalamus, and anterior cingulate cortex during retrieval of recent and remote context fear memory. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 127: 93-101.
• Prendergast, B.J., Cable, E.A., Stevenson, T.J., Onishi, K.G., Zucker, I., and Kay, L.M. (2015) Circadian disruption alters the effects of lipopolysaccharide treatment on circadian and ultradian locomotor activity and body temperature rhythms of female Siberian hamsters. Journal of Biological Rhythms, 30(6):543-556.
• Kay, L.M. (2014) Olfactory system oscillations across phyla. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 31: 141-147.
• Rojas-Libano, D., Frederick, D.E., Egana, J.I. and Kay, L.M. (2014) The olfactory bulb theta rhythm follows all frequencies of diaphragmatic respiration in the freely behaving rat. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8:214. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00214
• Kay, L.M., Rojas-Libano, D. and Frederick, D.E. (2014) Active behaviors in odor sampling constrain the task for cortical processing, in Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (IV), H. Liljenstrom (Ed.), Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
• Kay, L.M. (2014) Circuit Oscillations in Odor Perception and Memory, in Progress in Brain Research: Odor Memory and Perception, vol. 208 E. Barkai and D.A. Wilson (Eds.), Elsevier, Oxford, UK. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63350-7.00009-7
• Opal, M.D., Klenotich, S.C., Morais, M., Bessa, J., Winkle, J., Doukas, D., Kay, L.J., Sousa, N., and Dulawa, S.M. (2013) Serotonin 2C receptor antagonists induce fast-onset antidepressant effects. Molecular Psychiatry, in press. [Note: incorrect author initials Kay, L.J. should be Kay, L.M.]
• Rojas-Libano, D. and Kay, LM. (2012) Interplay between sniffing and odorant sorptive properties in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(44):15577-89.
• Drobyshevsky, A., Yu, L., Yang, Y., Khalid, S., Lui, K., Jiang, R., Ji, H., Derrick, M., Kay, L.M., Silverman, R.B., Tan, S. (2012) Antenatal insults modify newborn olfactory function by nitric oxide produced from neuronal nitric oxide synthase. Experimental Neurology, 237(2):427-34.
• Kay, L.M. (2012) Timing at multiple scales in olfactory perception, in Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (III), Y. Yamaguchi (Ed.), Springer Science, New York.
• Frederick, D.E., Rojas-Libano, D., Scott, M., and Kay, L.M. (2011) Rat behavior in go/no-go and two-alternative choice odor discrimination: differences and similarities. Behavioral Neuroscience, 125(4): 588-603.
• Kay, LM. (2011) Olfactory cortex: Random scents make sense. Current Biology, 21(22): R928-R929.
• Kay, L.M. and Lazzara, P. (2010) How global are olfactory bulb oscillations? Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(3): 1768-1773.
• Kay, L.M. and Beshel, J. (2010) A beta oscillation network supports a gamma oscillation mode in the rat olfactory system during a 2-alternative choice odor discrimination task. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(2):829-839.
• Gourevitch, B., Kay. L.M. and Martin, C. (2010) Directional coupling from the olfactory bulb to the hippocampus during a go/no-go odor discrimination task. Journal of Neurophysiology, 103(5): 2633-2641.
• Kay, L.M. (2010) Beyond sensory coding: the cognitive context of olfactory neurodynamics, Proceedings of the International Conference in Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN’09), Springer.
• Brea, J., Kay, L.M. and Kopell, N. (2009) Biophysical model for gamma rhythms in the olfactory bulb via subthreshold oscillations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 106(51): 21954-21959.
• 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 Res, 1268: 48-57.
• Kay, L.M., Beshel, J., Brea, J., Martin, C., Rojas-Libano, D. & Kopell, N. (2009) Olfactory oscillations: the what, how and what for, Trends in Neurosciences, 32(4): 207-214.
• 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.
• 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):159-64.
• Rojas-Libano, D. and Kay, L.M. (2008) Olfactory system gamma oscillations: the physiological dissection of a cognitive neural system, Cognitive Neurodynamics, 2(3): 179-194.
• Kay, L.M. (2008) Olfactory Information, in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Binder, M.D.; Hirokawa, N.; Windhorst, U.; Hirsch, M.C. (Eds.) Springer Science, New York.
• Kay, L.M. (2008) Dynamical architecture of the mammalian olfactory system, in Dynamic Brain LNCS 5286 (pp. 67-90), M. Marinaro, S. Scarpetta & Y. Yamaguchi (Eds.). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
• 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.PMID: 18445053
• Prendergast, B.J. and Kay, L.M. (2008) Affective and adrenocorticotrophic responses to photoperiod in Wistar rats, Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 20(2): 261-267.PMID: 18047552
• Prendergast, B.J., Kampf-Lassin, A., Yee, J.R., Galang, J., McMaster, N., and 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. PMID: 17728099
• Martin, C., Beshel, J. and Kay, L.M. (2007) An olfacto-hippocampal network is dynamically involved in odor discrimination learning. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4): 2196-2205.
• Beshel, J., Kopell, N., & Kay, L.M. (2007) Olfactory bulb gamma oscillations are enhanced with task demands. Journal of Neuroscience, 27(31): 8358-8365.PMID: 17670982
• Lowry, C.A. and Kay, L.M. (2007) Chemical factors determine olfactory system beta oscillations in waking rats. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(1): 394-404. PMID: 17442770
• Kay, L.M. and Sherman, S.M. (2007) An argument for an olfactory thalamus. Trends in Neurosciences, 30(20):47-53. PMID: 17161473
• Ables, E.M., Kay, L.M. and Mateo, J.M. (2007) Rats assess degree of relatedness from human odors. Physiology & Behavior, 90: 726-732. PMID: 17261318
• Kay, L.M., Beshel, J. and Martin C. (2006) When good enough is best. Neuron, 51(3):277-8. PMID: 16880120
• Kay, L.M. and Stopfer, M. (2006) Information processing in the olfactory systems of insects and vertebrates. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, 17(4):433-42. 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):339-46. PMID: 16730757
• Kay, L.M., Crk, T., Thorngate, J. (2005) A redefinition of odor mixture quality. Behavioral Neuroscience, 119(3): 726-733. PMID: 15998193
• Kay, L.M. (2005) Theta oscillations and sensorimotor performance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102(10): 3863-3868. PMID: 15738424
• Kay, L.M. (2004) Two minds about odors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 101(51): 17569-17570. PMID: 15601763
• 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. PMID: 14570560
• Kay, L.M. (2003) A challenge to chaotic itinerancy from brain dynamics. Chaos 13(3): 1057-1066. This article was also selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Sept. 1, 2003, 6(5). PMID: 12946199
• Kay, L.M. (2003) Two species of gamma oscillations in the olfactory bulb: dependence on behavioral state and synaptic interactions. J. Integrative Neurosci. 2(1): 31-44. PMID: 15011275
• Nusser, Z., Kay, L.M., Laurent, G., Homanics, G.E., Mody, I. (2001) Disruption of GABAA receptor-mediated inhibition of GABAergic interneurons leads to increased synchrony of the olfactory bulb network. J. Neurophysiology, 86(6): 2823-2833. PMID: 11731539
• Kay, L.M. (2001) Chaotic itinerancy: insufficient perceptual evidence. Commentary on I. Tsuda, “Towards an interpretation of dynamic neural activity in terms of chaotic dynamical systems,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24(5): 819-820.
• Kay, L.M. and Laurent, G. (1999) Odor- and context-dependent modulation of mitral cell firing in behaving rats. Nature Neurscience, 2(11): 1003-1009. PMID: 10526340
• Kay, L.M. and Freeman, W.J. (1998) Bidirectional processing in the olfactory-limbic axis during olfactory behavior. Behavioral Neuroscience, 112(3): 541-553. PMID: 9676972
• Kay, L.M., Lancaster, L.R., and Freeman, W.J. (1996) Reafference and attractors in the olfactory system during odor recognition. International Journal of Neural Systems, (4): 489-495. PMID: 8968840
• Kay, L.M. (1996) Olfactory perception: intentionality in a distributed dynamical system. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks: 1996. International Neural Network Society Annual Meeting, pp 1251-1254.
• Kay, L., Freeman, W.J. , and Lancaster, L. (1996) Limbic Markers during Olfactory Perception, in Advances in Processing and Pattern Analysis of Biological Signals, Eds. I. Gath and G. Inbar. Plenum: New York, pp 71-84.
• 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.
• Lancaster, L.R., Kay, L., and Freeman, W.J. (1995) A new attractor analysis technique applied to rat olfactory system EEG. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks: 1995. International Neural Network Society Annual Meeting, vol. I, pp 274-277.
• Kay, L.M. (1995) Dynamic Interaction of Olfactory and Limbic Systems during Olfactory Perception. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.
• Kay, L. (1994) Distribution of gamma and beta oscillations in olfactory and limbic structures during olfactory perception in rats: evidence for reafference. Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks: 1994. International Neural Network Society Annual Meeting, vol. 2, 675-680.
• Barczys, C., Bloom, L. and Kay, L. (1993) Applying genetic algorithms to improve EEG classification and explore GA parametrization, in Lectures in Complex Systems, Eds. L. Nadel & D. Stein, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Lect. Vol. V, Addison-Wesley.